Table of Contents for Existing: An Introduction to Existential Thought, ed. Steven Luper
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INTRODUCTION
A.
Individualist Politics
B.
Pascal and Seizing Life
C.
The Unacknowledged Malleability of Nature and the Self
D.
Existence
E.
Angst, Absurdity, and Authenticity
F.
Further Readings
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
A.
Introduction
B.
Precursors
Blaise Pascal, Pensees
G. W. F. Hegel, “Preliminary Notion,” from Logic
“Master and Slave,” from Phenomenology of Spirit
Philosophy of Right, “Ethical Life”
C.
“Rotation of Crops,” from Either/Or
D.
Preface, “Exordium,” “Eulogy on Abraham,” “Preliminary Expectoration,” and
“Problema I & II” from Fear and Trembling
E.
“Theses by Lessing,” “Becoming Subjective,” and “Subjective Truth, Inwardness;
Truth is Subjectivity” from Concluding Unscientific Postscript
F.
Introduction, and“The Sickness Unto Death is Despair,” from The Sickness Unto
Death
G.
Questions for Reflection
H.
Further Readings
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
A.
Introduction
B.
Precursor
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Sect. 68
C.
Birth of Tragedy
D.
“Schopenhauer as Educator,” from Untimely Meditations
E.
Preface and “Ennoblement through Degeneration,” from Human, All too Human
E.
The Joyful Wisdom, excerpts
F.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, excerpts
G.
Beyond Good and Evil, excerpts
H.
Genealogy of Morals, excerpts
I.
Maxims 8 and 12, “Problem of Socrates,” “Improvers of Mankind,” and
“Skirmishes of an Untimely Man,” from Twilight of the Idols
J.
The Antichrist, excerpts
K.
“Why I Am So Clever,” from Ecce Homo
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“Belief in the “Ego,” from Will to Power
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Questions for Reflection
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Further Readings
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
A.
Introduction
B.
Precursor
Edmund Husserl, Introduction to Vol. II of Logical Investigations, and “The Paris
Lectures”
C.
“What is Metaphysics?”
D.
From Being and Time:
Division One: The Preparatory Fundamental Analysis of Da-sein
Sects. 9, 12-15, 25-31, 38, 40-42
Division Two: Da-sein and Temporality
Sects. 50-53, 58, 60, 62, 64-65.
E.
Questions for Reflection
F.
Further Readings
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
A.
Introduction
B.
Existentialism as a Humanism
C.
From Being and Nothingness:
“The Phenomenon” from Introduction
“The Question,” “Negations,” and “The Origin of Nothingness,” from Part One,
Chapter One
“Bad Faith and Falsehood,” “Patterns of Bad Faith,” and “The “Faith” of Bad
Faith,” from Part One, Chapter Two
“The Facticity of the For-Itself,” from Part Two, Chapter One
“The Problem,” “The Reef of Solipsism,” and “The Look” from Part Three,
Chapter One
“First Attitude Toward Others: Love, Language, Masochism,” and “Second
Attitude Toward Others: Indifference, Desire, Hate. Sadism,” from Part
Three, Chapter Three
“Existential Psychoanalysis,” from Part Four, Chapter Two
D.
Questions for Reflection
E.
Further Readings
FURTHER 20th CENTURY EXISTENTIAL THOUGHT
A.
Introduction
B.
Miguel de Unamuno, “The Hunger of Immortality,” and “The Practical Problem,”
from Tragic Sense of Life
C.
Gabriel Marcel, “Outlines of a Phenomenology of Having” from Being and
Having
D.
Karl Jaspers, “The Search for Being” and “Existenz” from Philosophy
E.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Preface and “Freedom,” from Phenomenology of
Perception; and “The Metaphysical in Humanity”
F.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Second Sex, excerpts
G.
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
H.
Martin Buber, I and Thou
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Paul Tillich, “Courage and Transcendence,” from The Courage to Be
J.
Questions for Reflection
K.
Further Readings
EXISTENTIALIST LITERATURE
A.
Introduction
B.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From the Underground, Part 1, and “The Grand
Inquisitor” from The Brothers Karamazov
C.
Franz Kafka, An Imperial Message
D.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea, excerpt
No Exit, excerpt
E.
Jorge Luis Borges, “Everything and Nothing”
F.
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
G.
Philip K. Dick, “The Imposter”
H.
John Barth, The End of the Road