Binding: Hardcover
Description: While existentialism has long been associated with Parisian Left Bank philosophers sipping cocktails in smoke - filled caf's or with a brooding angst - filled outlook on life Gosetti - Ferencei shows how vital and heterogeneous the movement really was. In this concise accessible book Gosetti - Ferencei offers a new vision of existentialism. As she lucidly demonstrates existentialism is a rich and diverse philosophy that encourages meaningful engagement with the world around us offering a host of fascinating concepts that pertain to life as we experience it. The movement was as heterogeneous as it is now misunderstood influenced by jazz music involving diverse thinkers from around the world challenging received ideas about the meaning of human existence. Part of the difficulty in defining existentialism is that it was never a unified philosophy but came to identify a set of shared concerns about the meaning and possibility of human freedom as it may be expressed in authentic choices actions and projects. Existentialists all explored how in the absence of traditional reassurances about the meaning of life we may transcend our present circumstances and give our situation new meaning. With existentialism concrete lived experience of the single individual emerged from the shadow of abstract systems and long - defended traditions and became subject - matter in its own right for philosophical inquiry. Far from solipsistic Gosetti - Ferencei shows that existentialist attention to the human self can be intertwined with ways of conceiving the world our being with others the earth and the encompassing concept of being. Fully appreciating what existentialism has to offer requires recognizing the rich diversity of its prospects which involve not only anxiety absurdity awareness of death and the loss of religious meaning but also hope the striving for happiness and a sense of the transcendent. On Being and Becoming unpacks this philosophical movement's insights and reveals how its core ideas promote creative responses to the question of life's meaning.
Title: On Being And Becoming An Existentialist Approach To Life
Author(s): Gosetti - Ferencei Jennifer Anna (Professor And Kurrelmeyer Chair In German And Professor In Philosophy Professor And Kurrelmeyer Chair In German And Professor In Philosophy Johns Hopkins University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190913656
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 11/9/2020
Series: Guides to the Good Life
Category: Popular Psychology