The Arrow that Flies by Day: Existential Images of the Human Condition from Socrates to Hannah Arendt - Couverture souple

Bernard Murchland

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761840311 ISBN 13 : 9780761840312

Editeur : University Press of America, 2008

Synopsis

This study contends that existentialism is the perennial philosophy thus going against the assumption that it is a school of more recent provenance. Anthologies or introductory texts used begin with Kierkegaard (the so-called father of existentialism) and go on to emphasize Nietzsche, Sartre, and Heidegger. This book reflects a more catholic mapping, including three thinkers from the classical period (Socrates, Augustine, and the Stoics), who are argued to be just as existential as more modern thinkers (who are also treated) and indeed influence the latter in important ways. Also included are three Americans (Thoreau, James, and Hannah Arendt) who are rarely considered existentialists. Furthermore, the book has a pedagogical emphasis, reflecting students points-of-view: what they learn, how they react, questions they have, and how in general existentialism meets their education needs and expectations. It is, therefore, necessarily interdisciplinary in character, pointing out implications of existentialism for education, concerns like happiness, war and peace, democracy, sexuality, and terrorism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bernard Murchland is Professor of Philosophy at Ohio Wesleyan University and the Editor of The Civic Arts Review.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761840311
• ISBN 13: 9780761840312
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 150
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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