Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: John Britto Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 96 ISBN: 9783843374873
Описание
This book first provides a detailed and comprehensive account of existentialism — the etymology of existentialism; the relationship between existentialism and the philosophical sources like metaphysics, idealism, phenomenology and epistemology, the theological and the literary sources; the immediate background and foundation of existentialism; a short biography of twenty important existentialists; major existentialist themes; exploration of the fundamental concepts including Dasein, being-in-the world, being-in-itself and being-for-itself, existence and essence; Kant''s synthesis of empiricism and rationalism, and his distinction between the phenomena and the noumena; and the relationship and difference between psychology, anthropology and existentialist anthropology. Rooted in this wide-ranging setting, this book seeks to provide a hermeneutic analysis of Kafka''s works The Metamorphosis, The Castle and The Trial in the light of existentialism. It includes an analysis of the...