A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger by Michael Friedman

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre

"Kaufmann: Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre

Existentialism isn't really a philosophy yet a label for a number of commonly different
revolts opposed to conventional philosophy. many of the dwelling "existentialists"
have repudiated this label, and a bewildered outsider may well good conclude
that the one factor they've got in universal is a marked aversion for each
other. so as to add to the confusion, many writers of the prior have frequently
been hailed as individuals of this circulate, and this can be very doubtful
whether they'd have liked the corporate to which they are
consigned. In view of this, it'd be argued that the label
"existentialism" must be deserted altogether.
Certainly, existentialism isn't really a college of notion nor reducible to any
set of tenets. the 3 writers who seem continuously on each record of
"existentialists'' Jaspers, Heidegger, and Sartre-are no longer in contract on
essentials. Such alleged precursors as Pascal and Kierkegaard differed
from all 3 males by means of being committed Christians; and Pascal was once a
Catholic of types whereas Kierkegaard used to be a Protestant's Protestant. If, as is
often performed, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky are integrated within the fold, we must
make room for an impassioned anti-Christian and an excellent extra fanatical
Greek-Orthodox Russian imperialist. by the point we examine adding
Rilke, Kafka, and Camus, it turns into undeniable that one crucial feature
shared by means of most of these males is their perfervid individualism. "

The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination

A cornerstone of Sartre’s philosophy, The Imaginary was once first released in 1940. Sartre had turn into conversant in the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and used to be fascinated about his thought of the 'intentionality of consciousness' as a key to the puzzle of lifestyles. by contrast heritage, The Imaginary crystallized Sartre's worldview and creative imaginative and prescient.

Discovering Existence with Husserl

As a disciple of Husserl, Emmanuel Lavinas used to be probably the most autonomous and unique interpreters, attesting to the fruitfulness of Husserl's phenomenology and the various paths of idea it brought. In amassing the vast majority of Levinas's articles on Husserlian phenomenology, this quantity gathers jointly a wealth of exposition and interpretation via one of many extra vital ecu philosophers of the twentieth century .

New approaches to Neo-Kantianism

After the dying of German Idealism, Neo-Kantianism flourished because the defining philosophical circulation of Continental Europe from the 1860s until eventually the Weimar Republic. This number of new essays through distinct students bargains a clean exam of the various and enduring contributions that Neo-Kantianism has made to a various diversity of philosophical topics.