Existentialism

by Guignon, Charles; Pereboom, Derk

• ISBN13: 9780872205956
• ISBN10: 0872205959
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: The Legacy of Existentialism	xiii
Existentialism Today	xiii
Existentialism and the Rise of the Modern Worldview	xiv
Human Existence	xvii
Being-in-the-world	xxi
Freedom	xxv
Authenticity	xxxi
Existentialism and Its Critics	xxxv
Kierkegaard	1	(92)
Introduction:
Kierkegaard's Aims	1	(1)
The Human Situation	2	(3)
Spheres of Existence	5	(3)
Despair, Subjectivity, and Resignation	8	(5)
Faith	13	(3)
The Teleological Suspension of the Ethical	16	(3)
Background Reading:
from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit	19	(7)
Selections:
Fear and Trembling:	26	(52)
Preface	26	(3)
A Panegyric upon Abraham	29	(6)
Problemata: Preliminary Expectoration	35	(20)
Problem I (Is There Such a Thing as a Teleological Suspension of the Ethical?)	55	(11)
Problem II (Is There Such a Thing as an Absolute Duty Toward God?)	66	(12)
The Sickness unto Death:
That Despair is the Sickness unto Death	78	(7)
Concluding Unscientific Postscript:
The Subjective Truth, Inwardness; Truth is Subjectivity	85	(8)
Nietzche	93	(90)
Introduction:
Life-Philosophy: The Dionysian and the Apollonian	93	(3)
A New Kind of Science	96	(5)
The Death of God	101	(3)
The Idea of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same	104	(3)
Perspectivism	107	(4)
``The Great Health'' and the Path to the Overman	111	(3)
Twilight of the Idols	114	(5)
Selections:
The Birth of Tragedy (Section One)	119	(4)
The Gay Science	123	(49)
Twilight of the Idols	172	(11)
The Problem of Socrates	172	(4)
``Reason'' in Philosophy	176	(4)
How the ``True World'' Finally Became a Fiction	180	(3)
Heidegger	183	(72)
Introduction:
The Question of Being	183	(6)
Human Being (Dasein) as Being-in-the-world	189	(7)
The Structure of Human Agency	196	(7)
Authenticity	203	(8)
Selections:
Being and Time:
Introduction	211	(1)
The Question of Being	211	(4)
The Twofold Task in Working Out the Question of Being	215	(4)
Division One: Analysis of Dasein	219	(1)
The Task of a Preparatory Analysis of Dasein	219	(2)
Being-in-the World in General as the Basic State of Dasein	221	(2)
The Worldhood of the World	223	(7)
Being-in-the-World as Being-With and Being-One's-Self. The ``They''	230	(6)
Being-in as Such	236	(7)
Care as the Being of Dasein	243	(3)
Division Two: Dasein and Temporality	246	(1)
Dasein's Possibility of Being-a-whole, and Being-toward-death	246	(5)
Authenticity and Resoluteness	251	(2)
Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care	253	(2)
Sartre	255	(104)
Introduction:
What Is Existentialism?	255	(4)
Being, Consciousness, and Nothingeness	259	(6)
Freedom	265	(4)
Bad Faith and Authenticity	269	(3)
The Other and the Question of Ethics	272	(4)
Background Reading:
Husserl's ``Phenomenology and Anthropology''	276	(14)
Selections:
The Humanism of Existentialism	290	(19)
Being and Nothingness:
The Origin of Negation: The Question	309	(3)
Negations	312	(6)
The Origin of Nothingness	318	(10)
Bad Faith and Falsehood	328	(3)
Patterns of Bad Faith	331	(13)
The ``Faith'' of Bad Faith	344	(4)
The Existence of Others	348	(4)
Freedom and Responsibility	352	(3)
Existential Psychoanalysis	355	(4)
Ethical Implications	359