• ISBN13: 9780385031387
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Publisher Imprint: Anchor Books
• Publication Date: July 1, 1962
• Pages: 314
• Original Price: INR 1450.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 249 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Movements / Existentialism and History & Surveys / Modern

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Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist Philosophy, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett discusses the views of 19th and 20th century existentialists Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre and interprets the impact of their thinking on literature, art, and philosophy.

William Barrett is widely known as one of the first philosophers to introduce existentialism to America. Besides a long and distinguished career as a professor of philosophy, he was editor of Partisan Review and the literary critic for Atlantic Monthly. Barrett authored The Illusion of Technique and The Truants, among other books. He died in 1992, at the age of 78.