Karen Blixen's Existentialism

Karen Blixen's Existentialism
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781527546042
ISBN-13 : 1527546047
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Download or read book Karen Blixen's Existentialism written by Lars Kaaber and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the writings of Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) from an existentialist angle. Although it has not been subject to much study, Blixen’s writing elegantly and subtly integrates the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre in a way that makes the philosophers more accessible to a wider audience. However, Blixen also offers her own ideas of the fundamental problem in existentialism: how to arrive at an authentic identity through free, individual choices – or, as Nietzsche put it: how to become who you are. On the whole, Blixen’s authorship can be seen as an existential study of the 20th century and the ways by which Western culture came to be what it is now. In agreement with Nietzsche’s statement that all philosophy is an involuntary autobiography, this book also contains accounts of the lives of the three philosophers chiefly involved in this study.


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