In Search of Authenticity: Existentialism from Kierkegaard to Camus

by Golomb,Jacob

• ISBN13: 9780415119474
• ISBN10: 0415119472
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1995-08-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Great philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre have clearly been preoccupied by the possibility of authenticity. In this study, Jacob Golomb looks closely at the literature and writings of these philosophers in his analysis of their ethics. Golomb's writings shows his passionate commitment to the quest for the authenticity - particularly in our climate of post-modern scepticism. He argues that existentialism is all the more pertinent and relevant today when set against the general disillusionment which characterises the late twentieth century. This book is invaluable reading for those who have been fascinated by figures like Camus's Meursault, Sartre's Matthieu and Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

Author Biography

Jacob Golomb is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Authenticity, sincerity and honesty

Authenticity, literature and irony

Kierkegaard's ironic ladder to authentic faith

Nietzsche's pathos of authenticity

Heidegger's ontology of authenticity

Sartre: from phenomenological ontology to psychanalysis and politics

Camus's return to authentic human morality

Conclusion: Authenticity and Ethics

Bibliography

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