Research Catalog

Title

Restless adventure; essays on contemporary expressions of existentialism [by] Philip P. Hallie [and others] Roger L. Shinn, editor.

Author

Shinn, Roger Lincoln

Publication

New York, Scribner [1968]

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Details

Additional Authors

Hallie, Philip P. (Philip Paul)

Description

225 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

Existentialism

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction. A rebellion and it's career. No definitions -- Five expressions -- Communication and evaluation. 2. Philosophy. Indirect communication and human existence. Isolation and communication -- A parable for existentialism -- Existentialism and the history of philosphy -- Existentialism, rebellion, and freedom -- Sketch of a critique -- Conclusion / Philip P. Hallie. 3. Theology. The prodigal son of biblical faith. Radical faith -- Existentialist pathways -- Some burning issues -- Conclusion / Roger L. Shinn. 4. Literature. The author in search of his anecdote. The existential themes in literature -- The Kierkegaardian setting -- Kafka -- From Kierkegaard to Sartre -- The Sartrean perspective in literature -- The literature of extreme situations: Sartre -- The literature of extreme situations: Camus -- The literature of the absurd -- The Heideggerian perspective -- Holderlin, Rilke, and the orpheus journey -- Delmore Schwartz and the Heraclitean riddle / Stanley Romaine Hopper. 5. Art. Stages in the act of becoming. The collapse of classical definitions -- Rebellion and freedom -- Tremendous fragments of meaning -- The experience of art -- From the expressionist mode to total experience -- So what? / Roger Ortmayer. 6. Psychology. existentialism, psychotherapy, and the problem of death. The paradoxical relation of existentialism and American psychology -- The problem of death -- Some criticisms and cautions / Rollo May.

LCCN

^^^68012507^

OCLC

437276

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library