Introducing Existentialism Introducing Existentialism
A Graphic Guide
Published on 18. June 2015
176 pages
978-1-84831-983-7 (ISBN)
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Richard Appignanesi goes on a personal quest of Existentialism in its original state. He begins with Camus' question of suicide: 'Must life have a meaning to be lived?' Is absurdity at the heart of Existentialism? Or is Sartre right: is Existentialism 'the least scandalous, most technically austere' of all teachings?
This brilliant Graphic Guide explores Existentialism in a unique comic book-style.
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Richard Appignanesi is the author of Introducing Freud and Introducing Postmodernism. Oscar Zarate is one of the UK's leading graphic artists. He has illustrated numerous Introducing series titles. His graphic novel A Small Killing won the Will Eisner Prize.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- A question of absurdity
- Into the night and fog
- Vichy water into blood
- Republic of silence
- Light without effulgence
- Bergson's resistance
- Swimming in polluted waters
- How is it with Heidegger?
- For the time being .
- A graveyard of words
- What is the attraction of Existentialism?
- A voice from the dark
- The surfeit
- Self-deception, bad faith and authenticity
- Meaning for a "KZler"
- Conscious distance from oneself
- Have the "Night and Fog" truly lifted?
- The natural attitude of self-preservation .
- Metaphysical or "virgin" suicide
- An absurd syllogism
- The absurd forbids suicide
- The condemned man's reprieve
- Is death necessary?
- Technology is a metaphysics at its end
- The anti-geneticist Kirilov
- The limit-situation of meaning
- What Existentialism isn't
- Is no one an Existentialist?
- Convalescence of memory
- The origin of Existentialism
- And where is Heidegger?
- A victim of Gleichschaltung
- A philosophy relevant to life
- The spectre of phenomenology
- The looking-glass rivals
- Husserl's manifesto of a vocation
- The subject-object differential
- Natural and theoretical attitudes
- A case-history of scepticism
- Ego cogito, ergo sum
- Descartes' great error
- Res cogitans: the thinking thing
- The sceptical booby-trap
- The existential sacrifice
- Whose "crisis" is it?
- Suicide by economy of thought
- Cartesian meditations on epoche
- The Husserlian epoche
- In what sense "is" consciousness?
- A parenthetical gaze
- A template of suicide
- A technicolour Joseph's-coat of suicide
- A sceptic skeleton in the closet
- Sartre on suicide
- "In-itself" and "for-itself"
- Being free for death .
- . a resoluteness for history
- . also in 1927
- Does philosophy have office hours?
- Living in (im)partiality
- The life problem of vocation
- Entireness in parenthesis
- To see originally
- The problem of intentionality
- Cutting the umbilical cord
- Only a question of words
- There is no beyond language
- Abschattungen - perception in profile
- Funes the Memorious
- Is undivided attention possible?
- Where is invariance?
- Shadows in Plato's cave
- Are ideas "real"?
- Husserl's nonconformist Platonism
- What is evidence?
- When the walls sweat
- Kierkegaard's dramatis personae
- Kierkegaard's bogeyman, Hegel
- The unrelieved conscience of being
- Falling into faith
- The scandal of faith
- A man in dark times
- A strategy of pessimism
- The failure of science
- The spectre of Marx
- An Existentialist anti-colonialism
- The Existentialism that never was
- A vintage Existentialism
- Heidegger on parole
- The sting in the tail
- Heidegger on endless parole
- . is it over with Husserl?
- A sordino theology
- Preaching the futural
- Perhaps by accident .
- A return to fulfilled scepticism
- The grey breath of reasoning
- For reasons of history
- Words of reckoning
- A reduction to absolute existence
- Existence need not be
- Being is history
- What hope of human still "being"?
- Being and recession to nihilism
- Salvation from the thing
- A purge for nausea
- Acts of nihilation
- A conscious pact of freedom
- A lack of being
- "Existence precedes essence"
- Freedom is without history
- The ecstasy of time
- A draught from the well
- The redeeming Advent
- Time talk .
- The time-partials of consciousness
- The retained slipping-away
- The socially partial horizons
- The moment of history
- Heidegger's Mein Kampf
- Rassengedanke: racial thought
- A prophecy from Germany
- The crisis of modernity
- Will to Power as art
- The rising star
- The poverty of repentance
- A word in the heart
- The right to remain silent
- Existentialism without illusions
- Speaking of deception
- A schism in consciousness
- A lie without a liar
- Is there undeceived choice?
- Solipsism or intersubjectivity?
- Falling into "theyness"
- Being among one another
- The Turing Test
- The new superstition
- Transubstantiated performance
- Because it is possible .
- Notes on a nameless philosophy
- Flight from meaning
- Further Reading
- The Authors
- Index
