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  • Existentialism For Dummies

    by Christopher Panza, Gregory Gale ...
    Have you ever wondered what the phrase “God is dead” means? You’ll find out in Existentialism For Dummies, a handy guide to Nietzsche, Sartre, and Kierkegaard’s favorite philosophy. See how existentialist ideas have influenced everything from film and literature to world events and discover whether or not existentialism is still relevant today.You’ll find an introduction to existentialism and ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

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  • Basic Writings of Existentialism

    Edited by Gordon Marino ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon MarinoBasic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into one volume the most influential and commonly ... Read more

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  • Existentialism

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Thomas E. Wartenberg ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    A lively introduction to this celebrated philosophical tradition.Existentialism pervades modern culture, yet if you ask most people what it means, they won’t be able to tell you. In this lively and topical introduction, Wartenberg reveals a vibrant mode of philosophical inquiry that addresses concerns at the heart of the existence of every human being. Wartenberg uses classic films, novels, and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Philosophy of Boredom

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Translated by John Irons ...
    It has been described as a "tame longing without any particular object" by Schopenhauer, "a bestial and indefinable affliction" by Dostoevsky, and "time's invasion of your world system" by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. A Philosophy of Boredom investigates one of the central preoccupations of our age as it probes the nature of boredom, how it ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Nature

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
    Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a foundational work in American transcendentalism. Emerson explores the relationship between humans and the natural world, celebrating the beauty, power, and spiritual significance of nature. This work encourages readers to reconnect with the environment and embrace its lessons. ... Read more

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  • Existentialists and Mystics

    Writings on Philosophy and Literature

    by Iris Murdoch ...
    Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern Platonism, this volume includes incisive evaluations of the thought and writings of T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Seducer's Diary

    by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong ...
    "In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Søren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkegaard's first major volume, Either/Or, springs from his relationship with his fiancée, Regine ... Read more

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  • The Existentialists

    Critical Essays on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre

    by Robert Merrihew Adams, Louis Dupré, Robert Solomon, Alexander Nehamas, Harrison Hall, Charles Guignon, Thomas C. Anderson, Dorothy Leland ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    This volume brings together for the first time some of the most helpful and insightful essays on the four most influential and discussed philosophers in the history of existentialism: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The contributors write on such topics as Kierkegaard's knight of faith and his diagnosis of the 'present age;' Nietzsche's view of morality and self-creation; Heidegger ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • True to Our Feelings

    What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us

    by Robert C. Solomon ...
    We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us--all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings, Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions--why we don't really understand them, what they ... Read more

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  • Surfing with Sartre

    An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning

    by Aaron James ...
    From the bestselling author of Assholes: A Theory, a book that—in the tradition of Shopclass as Soulcraft, Barbarian Days and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance—uses the experience and the ethos of surfing to explore key concepts in philosophy.The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once declared "the ideal limit of aquatic sports . . . is waterskiing." The avid surfer and lavishly ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Event

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    This elegantly translated collection of Heidegger's private later writings is "illuminating to some of his most difficult discussions." (Phillip Braunstein, Loyola Marymount College).Martin Heidegger's The Event offers the most in-depth articulation of his later work's most foundational concept, as well as his most substantial self-critique of his Contributions to Philosophy: Of the Event. Written ... Read more

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  • Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport

    On Becoming an Elite Athlete

    by Kenneth Aggerholm ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    'Why don’t young athletes in sport just quit?’ Starting with this question and drawing on existential philosophy, phenomenology and hermeneutics, Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport seeks a deeper understanding of the experience of being a talented young sportsperson striving to become an elite athlete.As an alternative to conventional approaches to talent development governed by ... Read more

    $65.99 USD