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Title

The vitality of death : essays in existential psychology and philosophy / Peter Koestenbaum.

Author

Koestenbaum, Peter, 1928-

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Pub. Co., 1971.

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Details

Description

xi, 589 pages; 22 cm

Series Statement

Contributions in philosophy ; no. 5

Uniform Title

Contributions in philosophy ; no. 5.

Subject

• Death
• Existentialism
• Phenomenology
• Death
• Existentialism
• deaths
• existentialism
• phenomenology
• 08.30 systematics of philosophy: general
• Phenomenology
• Existenzphilosophie
• Phänomenologie
• Dood
• Existentiefilosofie
• Fenomenologie
• Existential psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The vitality of death -- Death and finitude -- The nature of anxiety (et in Arcadia ego) -- Anxiety and meaning : the phenomenological structure of the search for authenticity -- The power of freedom -- The sense of subjectivity -- Solutions to the paradox of alienation -- The existential crisis in philosophy and psychology -- Existential philosophy and the potential of women -- On the encounter between existentialism and psychiatry -- Outlines of an existential theory of neuroses -- The self as a free commitment-alienation system -- Therapeutic and philosophical aspects of meaning and responsibility -- Phenomenological psychiatry and its critics -- Phenomenological foundations for psychotherapy : the meaning of normalcy -- The structure of consciousness -- Philosophical therapy in marriage and sex -- An existential theology : God and transcendental consciousness -- Religion in the tradition of phenomenology -- To what extent is the religious or mystical experience genuinely ineffable? -- National purpose and the dignity of man : an existential view -- The creation of an authentic individual -- Analytic philosophy and phenomenology -- The concept of experience -- Phenomenological foundations for the behavioral sciences : the nature of facts -- Phenomenological foundations for the behavioral sciences : the method of science -- The phenomenology of metaphysics : the nature of philosophical differences -- The logic of Schopenhauer's aesthetics -- The intentionality of consciousness and therapeutic illustrations -- The theory of the transcendental ego -- The transcendental ego in Sankhya and Yoga.

ISBN

• 083713319X
• 9780837133195

LCCN

72105989

OCLC

• ocm00215314
• 215314
• SCSB-153025

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library