The Bloomsbury Handbook of Existentialism Hardback
Edited by Dr Jack (Deakin University, Australia) Reynolds, Dr Ashley (Dundee University, UK) Woodward, Dr Felicity (University of New England, Australia) Joseph
Part of the Bloomsbury Handbooks series
Hardback
Description
This fully revised and updated 2nd edition provides a comprehensive reference guide to existentialism, featuring key chapters on key existentialist thinkers, as well as chapters applying existentialism to subject areas ranging across politics, literature, feminism, religion, the emotions, cognitive science, and poststructuralism. Contemporary developments in the field of existentialism that speak to issues of identity and exclusion are explored in 4 new chapters on race, gender, disability, and technology, whilst the 5th new chapter new chapter outlines analytic philosophy’s complicated relationship to existentialism.
Presenting the field of existentialism beyond the European tradition, this edition also includes a new key thinker chapter on Frantz Fanon, alongside Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir, as well as new engagement with the work of scholars on race and existentialism, including Lewis R.
Gordon, George Yancy, and Richard Wright. The resources section at the end of the book includes an updated A to Z glossary, and timeline of key events, texts and thinkers in existentialism, as well as a list of relevant organisations, and an annotated guide to further reading, making this 2nd edition an invaluable text for scholars and students alike.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:25/01/2024
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- ISBN:9781350227446
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:25/01/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350227446
