Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre

Walter Kaufmann

Existentialism is the philosophical and cultural movement which holds that the starting point of philosophical thinking must be the experiences of the individual, and that moral and scientific thinking together do not suffice to understand human existence, so a further set of categories, governed by “authenticity”, is necessary to understand human existence. (“Authenticity”, in the context of existentialism, is being true to one’s own personality, spirit, or character.) This book covers the most entries from the most notable existentialist works of the 20th century.

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genre	Philosophy » General Philosophy
publisher	Meridian Books
publish date	1956
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