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Existential America
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: George Cotkin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-24 - Publisher: JHU Press

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"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
America Day by Day
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: Simone de Beauvoir
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-03-30 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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A portrait of 1940s America by a French writer, eg. "The constipated girl smiles a loving smile at the lemon juice that relieves her intestines. In the subway,
Irrational Man
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: William Barrett
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-26 - Publisher: Anchor

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Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks elo
At the Existentialist Café
Language: en
Pages: 449
Authors: Sarah Bakewell
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Other Press, LLC

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"[This book is] account of one of the twentieth centurys major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it"--Amazon.com.
Heidegger in America
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Martin Woessner
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-20 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Heidegger in America explores the surprising legacy of his life and thought in the United States of America. As a critic of modern life, Heidegger often lamente