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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100385031386
ISBN-139780385031387
eBay Product ID (ePID)158324
Product Key Features
Book TitleIrrational Man : a Study in Existential Philosophy
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMovements / Existentialism, Individual Philosophers, History & Surveys / Modern
Publication Year1962
FeaturesReprint
GenrePhilosophy
AuthorWilliam Barrett
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN90-033388
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal142/.7
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisWidely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the 1990s: a period when the irrational and the absurd are no better integrated than before and when humankind is in even greater danger of destroying its existence without ever understanding the meaning of its existence. Irrational Man begins by discussing the roots of existentialism in the art and thinking of Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Baudelaire, Blake, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Picasso, Joyce, and Beckett. The heart of the book explains the views of the foremost existentialists--Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The result is a marvelously lucid definition of existentialism and a brilliant interpretation of its impact.