Existentialism category: 383 books

La connaissance désigne un rapport de la pensée à la réalité extérieure et engage la notion de vérité comme adéquation de l'esprit et de la chose. Par extension, le terme connaissance désigne le contenu de la pensée qui correspond à la nature de la chose visée, et s'oppose à erreur ou illusion …

Wie macht man Philosophie aus Aprikosencocktails? Für Sartre kein Problem: Er machte Philosophie aus einem Schwindelgefühl, aus Voyeurismus, Scham, Sadismus, Revolution, Musik und Sex. Sarah Bakewell erzählt mit wunderbarer Leichtigkeit, wie der Existenzialismus zum Lebensgefühl einer Generation...

Ausgehend vom philosophischen Selbstmord des 19. Jahrhunderts und vom politischen Massenmord des 20. Jahrhunderts steht der postmoderne Mensch am Scheideweg, auf der Suche nach sich selbst. Entweder er kehrt zur Religion zurück oder er verneint sie vollständig, allerdings auf Kosten der Kunst und Philosophie....

The relationship between these two central theoretical and philosophical approaches, which we thought we knew, is more complex and interesting than our standard story might suggest. It is not always clear how hermeneutics-that is, post-Heideggerian hermeneutics as articulated by Hans-Georg...

Authorship is a complicated subject in Kierkegaard's work, which he surely recognized, given his late attempts to explain himself in On My Work as an Author. From the use of multiple pseudonyms and antonyms, to contributions across a spectrum of media and genres, issues of authorship abound. Why...

Je vais étudier une des maladies de la race française, la plus répandue et l'une des plus profondes à la fois et des plus aiguës. Je pense apporter de l'impartialité dans cette étude, n'appartenant à aucune confession religieuse, ni, ce qui est peut-être plus important encore dans l'espèce,...

Get Unstuck from Fundamentalism unravels the mystery behind the need to hold myths as literal truth and the need for certainty. Written in and laced with engaging Italian stories, it points beyond mere rejection of childhood upbringing to a deep spiritual shore that is there for all of us to find....

Ever wonder how Life originated? Explore ideas and thoughts on the origin of Life away from a different point of view and see the world in a different light. This Book is an exploration of how Life may be supported by a collection of essences which comes together to bring about the mysterious birth of an organism.

Introducing the thought of philosopher and theologian Jean-Yves Lacoste, this book provides an overview spanning Lacoste's earliest works on sacramentality to his latest work Etre en Danger (2011) in which Lacoste opens up the liturgical experience onto a spiritual experience of life. Schrijvers unfolds...

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) had a mission. The church had become weak, flabby and inconsequential. Being a Christian was more a cultural heritage than a spiritual reality. His mission—reintroduce the Christian faith to Christians. How could he break through to people who were members of the church...

This book discusses the political philosophy of Paul Ricoeur. More precisely, it offers a sustained engagement with Ricoeur’s political thought in a way that demonstrates both the significance of the political in his own thinking throughout his career, and how Ricoeur’s understanding of the political...

Gabriel Marcel and American Philosophy: The Religious Dimension of Experience examines the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel and its relationship to key figures in classical American Philosophy, in particular Josiah Royce, William Ernest Hocking, and Henry Bugbee. Few scholars have taken sufficient note...

The first installment of the Torture Trials series introduces a writer who was sentenced to hell by his own countrymen. He was then murdered to expedite his trip to hell, which took longer than expected and had biblical consequences. In an amazing feat of will, he returned from the prison of the damned,...

Angesichts der drohenden atomaren und ökologischen Katastrophe gewinnt Albert Schweitzers Einstellung zum Leben erneut bestürzende Aktualität. Dieses Buch vereinigt die Grundtexte dazu aus den Jahren 1919 bis 1963. Schon 1954 hat Schweitzer in seiner Rede bei der Entgegennahme des Nobelpreises...