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Literature, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences

Essays in Existentialism and Phenomenology

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  • © 1962

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Authors:
  1. Maurice Natanson

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, USA

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-XII
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  2. Philosophical Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Phenomenology: A Viewing

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 3-25

    3. Phenomenology and Existentialism

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 26-33

    4. Phenomenology and the Natural Attitude

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 34-43

    5. The Empirical and Transcendental Ego

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 44-54

    6. Being-in-Reality

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 55-61

    7. Jean-Paul Sartre’s Philosophy of Freedom

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 62-75

  3. Aesthetics and Literature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Toward a Phenomenology of the Aesthetic Object

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 79-85

    3. Phenomenology and the Theory of Literature

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 86-100

    4. Existentialism and the Theory of Literature

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 101-115

    5. Existential Categories In Contemporary Literature

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 116-130

    6. The Privileged Moment: a Study in the Rhetoric of Thomas Wolfe

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 131-140

    7. Albert Camus: Death At The Meridian

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 141-152

  4. History and the Social Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. A Study in Philosophy and the Social Sciences

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 155-166

    3. Knowledge and Alienation: Some Remarks on Mannheim’s Sociology of Knowledge

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 167-171

    4. History as a Finite Province of Meaning

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 172-177

    5. History, Historicity, and the Alchemistry of Time

      • Maurice Natanson
      Pages 178-194
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About this book

A collection of one man's essays in book form tends to be viewed today with some suspicion, if not hostility, by philosophical critics. It would seem that the author is guilty of an academic sin of pride: causing or helping to cause separately conceived articles to surpass their original station and assume a new life, a grander articulation. It can hardly be denied that the essays which follow must face this sullen charge, for they were composed at different times for different sorts of audiences and, for the most part, have already been published. Their appearance in a new form will not allay commonplace criticisms: there are repetitions, certain key terms are defined and defined again in various places, a few quotations reappear, and, beyond this, the essays are unequal in range, depth, and fundamental intent. But it is what brings these essays together that constitutes, I trust, their collective merit. Underlying the special arguments that are to be found in each of the chapters is a particular sense of reality, not a thesis or a theory but rather a way of seeing the world and of appreciating its texture and design. It is that sense of reality that I should like to speak of here. Philosophy stands in a paradoxical relationship to mundane ex­ istence: it is at once its critique and one of its possibilities.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, USA

    Maurice Natanson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Literature, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Existentialism and Phenomenology

  • Authors: Maurice Natanson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9278-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1962

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-011-8530-1Published: 01 January 1962

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-9278-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 220

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Phenomenology

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