Foreword The late EF Schumacher (1908-77) understates his case in titling this book A Guide for the Perplexed—what he undertakes is to provide nothing less than a Manual for Survival, concerned…
Foreword by FS Northrop There is a general awareness that contemporary physics has brought about an important revision in man’s conception of the universe and his relation to it. The suggestion has been…
Foreword William Barrett’s Irrational Man has been accepted as the finest definition of existentialism ever written. With superb clarity and understanding, he describes the roots of existentialism in ancient thought, and traces…
Forward—Bad faith is the technical term coined by Kierkegaard's wayward twentieth-century disciple Jean-Paul Sartre which the state of human inauthenticity where one attempts to flee from freedom, responsibility and anguish. It is a paradoxical and…
Existentialism I should like on this occasion to defend existentialism against some charges which have been brought against it. First, it has been charged with inviting people to remain in…
Foreword Existentialism is essentially a label for several widely different revolts against traditional philosophy. Most of the living “existentialists” have repudiated this label, and a bewildered outsider might well conclude…