Existential America

Existential America
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 0801870372
ISBN-13 : 9780801870378
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Download or read book Existential America written by George Cotkin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-01-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As Cotkin shows, not only did Americans readily take to existentialism, but they were already heirs to a rich tradition of thinkers - from Jonathan Edwards and Herman Melville to Emily Dickinson and William James - who had wrestled with the problems of existence and the contingency of the world long before Sartre and his colleagues. After introducing the concept of an American existential tradition, Cotkin examines how formal existentialism first arrived in America in the 1930s through discussion of Kierkegaard and the early vogue among New York intellectuals for the works of Sartre, Beauvoir, and Camus.


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