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EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY / EXISTENTIALISM
Existential
Phenomenology
Though it has its roots in in the views of
nineteenth century thinkers like Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and
Nietzsche (see
Nineteenth Century Existentialism), Existentialism
is a mainly twentieth century school of thought concerned with the
"existing individual, and a call for a consideration of man in his
concrete situation, including his culture, history, relations with
others, and above all, the meaning of personal existence" (Stewart
and Mickunas 63). For Existentialists, in Sartre's famous
formula, existence (the reality of lived experience) precedes
essence (idealist theories, Platonic, Christian, etc. that define
human beings in otherworldly terms, i.e. as having a soul, etc.).
It is in the
emphasis upon the existential subject that the
crucial distinction is found between existentialism and the
various brands of empiricism, positivism, and instrumentalism
that also emphasize the particular, the concrete, and the here
and now. For these latter the particular is still seen
from without, from the standpoint of the detached observer,
rather than from within, from the standpoint of lived life.
(Freidman 9)
For a very useful discussion of many of the terms
above, please see Brent Dean Robbins' What is Existential-Phenomenology?
from which I have sourced many of the quotations.
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Annual Meeting, Society for Existential and
Phenomenological Theory and Culture,
University of Saskatchewan, May 29-31
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Annual Meeting, Society for Existential and
Phenomenological Theory and Culture, York University, May 27-29
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Anthologies:
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Daigle, Christine, ed. Existentialist Thinkers
and Ethics. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2006.
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Dreyfus, Hubert L., and Mark A. Wrathall, eds.
A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism. Oxford:
Blackwell, 2006.
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Friedman, Maurice, ed. The Worlds of
Existentialism: a Critical Reader. Delmar, 1991.
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Lee, E. N., and M.
Mandelbaum, eds. Phenomenology
and Existentialism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1967.
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Selected
Individual Works:
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Barrett, William. Irrational Man: a Study in
Existential Philosophy. New York: Anchor, 1962.
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Caws, Peter, and Peter Fettner. "Philosophy of
Existence and Philosophical Anthropology: Sartre and Heidegger."
The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of
Continental Philosophy. Ed. Simon Glendenning. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.
152-162.
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Earnshaw, Steven.
Existentialism: a Guide for the Perplexed. London:
Continuum, 2007.
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Cooper, David E. Existentialism: a
Reconstruction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.
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Evans, C. Stephen. Existentialism: the
Philosophy of Despair and the Quest for Hope. W Publishing
Group, 1984.
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Guignon, Charles. The Existentialists: Critical
Essays on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
- Luijpen, William A., and Henry J. Koren. A First
Introduction to Existential Phenomenology. Pittsburgh:
Duquesne UP, 1969.
- Luijpen, Williams A. Existential
Phenomenology. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1960.
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MacQuarrie, John. Existentialism.
John Knox, 1972.
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Olafson, F.
A. Principles
and Persons: an Ethical Interpretation of Existentialism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
UP, 1967.
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Olson, Robert G.
An
Introduction to Existentialism. New York: Dover, 1962.
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Poster, Mark. Existential Marxism in Post-War
France: from Sartre to Althusser. Princeton: Princeton UP,
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Reynolds, Jack.
Understanding Existentialism.
Chesham: Acumen 2006. -
Roubiczek, P.
Existentialism: For and Against.
Cambridge: CUP, 1964.
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Schroeder, William. "Existentialism and Philosophical
Anthropology." Continental Philosophy: a
Critical Approach. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. 206-242.
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Solomon, Robert C.
Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts: Experience and Reflection in
Camus and Sartre.
Oxford: OUP, 2006.
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Solomon, Robert C.
From
Rationalism to Existentialism. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.
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Solomon, Robert C. "The
Self in France: Sartre, Camus, De Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty."
Continental Philosophy since
1750: the Rise and Fall of the Self. Oxford:
OUP, 1988. 173-193.
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Solomon, Robert C. From Hegel to Existentialism.
Oxford: OUP, 1987.
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