Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Pages,
Binding,
Edition,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Barrett
Author First Name:
William
Pages:
321
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
Reprinted
ISBN 10:
0385031386
ISBN 13:
9780385031387
Condition:
Used
Publisher:
Anchor
Date Published:
7/1/1962
Genre:
Philosophy
Description
Irrational Man is widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written. It is largely responsible for introducing existentialism to America. 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.
Recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy, this introduced existentialism to American in 1958.
