Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-7425-1241-2 • Paperback • February 2001 • $63.00 • (£48.00)
Robert C. Solomon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of several best-selling textbooks and numerous monographs.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 The Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds: Kant, Hegel, and Existentialism
Chapter 3 Immanuel Kant
Chapter 4 G.W.F. Hegel
Chapter 5 Soren Kierkegaard
Chapter 6 Friedrich Nietzsche
Part 7 The Twentieth Century: Phenomenology and Existentialism
Chapter 8 Edmund Husserl and Phenomenology
Chapter 9 Martin Heidegger
Chapter 10 Jean-Paul Sartre and French Existentialism
Chapter 11 Bibliography
Chapter 12 Footnotes
Chapter 13 Index
Solomon's work exhibits a fine understanding of the complexity of the history of ideas. He is capable of overlooking differences of method and agenda to find the evolving core of ideas beneath that bring a unity to western philosophical thought, and so he manages to bring the enfant terrible— existentialism— home to its roots. This is a very important achievement...
— Milltown Studies
Solomon takes us on an illuminating journey through Western philosophy by his ability to find comparisons between the most seemingly incongruent philosophies.
— Milltown Studies