Existing: An Introduction to Existential Thought

by Steven Luper

This anthology gathers a wide variety of excerpts from the existential and phenomenological writings of the 19th and 20th centuries. Luper provides a brief history of the existential movement, as well as introductory essays to each chapter.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767405870
• ISBN13: 9780767405874
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A sophisticated and non-patronizing introduction

This book offers sizeable selections from the works of Kiekegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre. It seems great for an introductory class that is more than only a survey class, as the text gives large enough portions of each key author to give a real and lasting sense of their thought. The book also includes many selections from relevant minor figures such as Camus, Jaspers and Marcel to round out the picture. I especially like how the book treats existentialism as serious philosophy, not as fluffy literature (the existentialist literature is kept to a minimum). The book could definitely profit from inclusion of more Beauvoir selections, however--something from Second Sex, to be sure, and certainly more pages from Ethics of Ambiguity as well.