Situating Existentialism

Key Texts in Context

By: Jonathan Judaken (Editor), Robert Bernasconi (Editor)

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This anthology provides a history of the systemization and canonization of existentialism, a quintessentially antisystemic mode of thought. Situating existentialism within the history of ideas, it features new readings on the most influential works in the existential canon, exploring their formative contexts and the cultural dialogues of which they were a part.

Emphasizing the multidisciplinary and global nature of existential arguments, the chosen texts relate to philosophy, religion, literature, theater, and culture and reflect European, Russian, Latin American, African, and American strains of thought. Readings are grouped into three thematic categories: national contexts, existentialism and religion, and transcultural migrations that explore the reception of existentialism. The volume explains how literary giants such as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy were incorporated into the existentialist fold and how inclusion into the canon recast the work of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, and it describes the roles played by Jaspers and Heidegger in Germany and the Paris School of existentialism in France. Essays address not only frequently assigned works but also underappreciated discoveries, underscoring their vital relevance to contemporary critical debate. Designed to speak to a new generation's concerns, the collection deploys a diverse range of voices to interrogate the fundamental questions of the human condition.

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Non-Fiction Philosophy Ethics & Moral Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy Phenomenology & Existentialism Religion & Beliefs Religion Philosophy of Religion Religious Issues & Debates Society & Culture

Introduction	p. 1
(Trans)National Contexts
Russian Existentialism, or Existential Russianism	p. 37
German Existentialism and the Persistence of Metaphysics: Weber, Jaspers, Heidegger	p. 65
Sisyphus's Progeny: Existentialism in France	p. 89
Punching Through the Pasteboard Masks: American Existentialism	p. 123
Angst Across the Channel: Existentialism in Britain	p. 145
Existentialisms in the Hispanic and Latin American Worlds El Quixote and Its Existential Children	p. 180
Existentialism and religion
Fear and Trembling and the Paradox of Christian Existentialism	p. 211
Jewish Co-Existentialism: Being with the Other	p. 237
Camus the Unbeliever: Living Without God	p. 256
Migrations
Anxiety and Secularization: SØren Kierkegaard and the Twentieth-Century Invention of Existentialism	p. 279
Rethinking the "Existential" Nietzsche in Germany: Lowith, Jaspers, Heidegger	p. 305
Situating Frantz Fanon's Account of Black Experience	p. 336
Simone de Beauvoir in Her Times and Ours: The Second Sex and Its Legacy in French Feminist Thought	p. 360
The "Letter on Humanism": Reading Heidegger in France	p. 386
List of Contiibutors	p. 415
Index	p. 419
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