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Existentialism is often studied by students with little or no background in philosophy; either as an introduction to the idea of studying philosophy or as part of a literary course. Although it is often an attractive topic for students interested in thinking about questions of ''self'' or ''being'', it also requires them to study difficult thinkers and texts. This Guide for the Perplexed begins with the question of ''What is Existentialism?'' and then moves on to provide a brief analysis of the key thinkers, writers and texts - both philosophical and literary - central to existentialism. Chapt

1. Existentialism and its heritage -- 2. Heidegger and the existential analytic -- 3. Condemned to freedom : Sartre's phenomenological ontology -- 4. Sartre : hell is other people -- 5. Merleau-Ponty and the body -- 6. De Beauvoir : feminism and existential ethics -- 7. The legacy of existentialism : deconstruction, responsibility and the time of the decision.

What is existentialism? -- Why Meursault is an outsider -- Freedom and the origins of reasons -- Why Xavière is a threat to François -- Psychoanalysis and the existentialist mind -- Why Inez is not in hell -- Sedimentation and the grounds of cultural values -- Black skin, white masks -- From absurdity to authenticity -- The imperative of authenticity

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Introduction: Reasonable Naturalism and the Humanistic Resistance to Reductionism: Jocelyn Maclure -- Notes -- 1: Neo-Existentialism: How to Conceive of the Human Mind after Naturalism's Failure: Markus Gabriel -- I Consciousness of the Gap -- II Naturalism's Failures -- III Geist as an Explanatory Structure -- IV Neo-Existentialism and the Conditional Model of Mind and Brain -- Notes -- 2: Gabriel's Refutation: Charles Taylor -- 3: Does Mind "Exist"?: Jocelyn Benoist -- 4: Human Life and its Concept: Andrea Kern -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- Notes -- 5: Replies to Jocelyn Maclure, Charles Taylor, Jocelyn Benoist, and Andrea Kern: Markus Gabriel -- I Reply to Maclure -- II Reply to Taylor -- III Reply to Benoist -- IV Reply to Kern -- Notes -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement

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