Research Catalog

Title

Existential thinking : a philosophical orientation / by Bernard J. Boelen.

Author

Boelen, Bernard J. (Bernard Jacques), 1916-

Publication

[New York] : Herder and Herder, [1971]

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Details

Description

ix, 288 pages; 23 cm

Summary

A systematic re-thinking of philosophy out of the primordial phenomenon of wonder as its original starting point and its lasting source of inspiration. This approach discloses the existential nature of philosophical thinking in a new, fundamental and thought-provoking perspective. The book begins with an attempt to ask truly philosophical questions. This procedure not only clears out uncritically accepted pre-philosophical convictions, but it also helps lay the ground work for orienting the reader towards personal involvement in existential thinking. The basic and often controversial issues of this book are presented in a gradual, systematic, expressive and uncompromising way.

Subject

• Philosophy
• Methodology
• Thought and thinking
• Existentialism
• Philosophy
• Methods
• Thinking
• Existentialism
• philosophy
• methodology
• thinking
• existentialism

Note

• First pub. 1968.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The Question of the Beginning -- In Search of the Primordial Question -- The Primordial Phenomenon of Wonder -- Wonder and Philosophical Authenticity -- Wonder and Philosophical Method -- Logic and Logos -- The Immanency of Existential Thinking -- The Transcendency of Existential Thinking -- Existential Thinking and the Aesthetic Phenomenon -- Existential Thinking and Ethical Existence -- Existential Thinking and Existential Loving.

LCCN

77026138

OCLC

• ocm00150591
• 150591
• SCSB-122863

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library