Existentialism category: 383 books

'God is dead ... but given the ways of men, perhaps for millennia to come there will be caves in which his shadow will be shown' Friedrich Nietzsche described The Joyous Science as a book of 'exuberance, restlessness, contrariety and April showers'. A deeply personal and affirmative work, it...

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and a Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history.  From the pen of the master, the Nietzsche Collection features: Human,...

The Flame of Eternity provides a reexamination and new interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and the central role that the concepts of eternity and time, as he understood them, played in it. According to Krzysztof Michalski, Nietzsche's reflections on human life are inextricably linked to time,...

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most popular and controversial philosophers of the last 150 years. Narcissistic, idiosyncratic, hyperbolic, irreverent--never has a philosopher been appropriated, deconstructed, and scrutinized by such a disparate array of groups, movements, and schools of thought....

Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting. This is connected to the historical materialist project of social change by way of the radical Italian composer Luigi Nono.

This dramatic re-evaluation of Sartre’s ethical theory establishes its author as a leading American exponent of phenomenology and wins many new followers for Sartre in the English-speaking world.

In questo scritto cercheremo di fare leva sul punto focale della nostra analisi privilegiando uno dei periodi che più di tutti gli altri - non meno degni di attenzione ma nel nostro caso solo marginali -, interessò e condizionò la ricerca filosofica di Martin Heidegger. Tale scelta è il frutto...

Life as Art brings the resources of contemporary aesthetics since Nietzsche to bear on the problems of how one integrates the aesthetic emphases of meaning, liberation, and creativity into one’s daily life. By linking together the aesthetic and ethical accounts of critical theorists, phenomenologists,...

Author’s first new play since his breakout hit Thom Pain Scheduled premieres this Fall in New York and Chicago New York Times called Eno “the Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation.”

British Philosopher Bob Innes takes the position of the individual with Existential Awareness in the modern world and looks at the social illusory position that this individual may have in regard to; Conformity The Artist  The Scapegoat The Prison Writer Mental...

In Kierkegaard's Romantic Legacy, Anoop Gupta develops an original theory of the self based on Kierkegaard's writings. Gupta proceeds by historical exegesis and considers several important ways of thinking about self outside of the natural sciences. His study moves theories of the self from theology...

Following World War II, Viktor Frankl revolutionized the field of psychotherapy with the inception of logotherapy. With Logotherapy: Viktor Frankl, Life and Work, Soggie offers a compelling and comprehensive introduction to both the man and his contribution to psychotherapy. Through the examination...

The Divided Self, R.D. Laing's groundbreaking exploration of the nature of madness, illuminated the nature of mental illness and made the mysteries of the mind comprehensible to a wide audience. First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing...

This is a collection of 12 short stories, accompanied by author's notes at the end. Looking Beyond the Universe - Jack Lee is a therapist called to diagnose a curious case - a man is claiming to be a superhero. Jack listens to his story and the patient is so vehement part of Jack wonders...