About the Book
Table of Contents:
Contributors
1. Introduction Felicity Joseph, Jack Reynolds and Ashley Woodward (University of Melbourne, La Trobe University and Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Australia)
2. Existentialism, Phenomenology and Philosophical Method Felicity Joseph and Jack Reynolds (University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, Australia)
Part I: Current Research and Issues
3. Existentialism, Metaphysics and Ontology Christian Onof (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)
4. Existentialism and Politics David Sherman (University of Montana, USA)
5. Existentialism, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Douglas Kirsner (Deakin University, Australia)
6. Existentialism and Ethics Debra Bergoffen (George Mason University, USA)
7. Existentialism and Religion George Pattison (University of Oxford, UK)
8. Existentialism and Literature Colin Davis (Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK)
9. Existentialism, Feminism and Sexuality Marguerite La Caze (University of Queensland, Australia)
10. Existentialism and the Emotions Suzanne L. Cataldi (Southern Illinois University, USA)
11. Existentialism, Authenticity and the Self Christopher Macann
12. Existentialism and Latin America Roberto Domingo Toledo (Stony Brook University, USA)
Part II: New Directions
13. Existentialism and Cognitive Science Michael Wheeler and Ezequiel Di Paolo (University of Stirling, UK and University of the Basque Country, Spain)
14. Existentialism and Poststructuralism: Some Unfashionable Observations Jack Reynolds and Ashley Woodward (La Trobe University and Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Australia)
15. Recent Developments in Scholarship on Key Existentialists
I. Kierkegaard William McDonald (University of New England, USA)
II. Nietzsche Keith Ansell-Pearson (University of Warwick, UK)
III. Heidegger Andrew J. Mitchell (Emory University, USA)
IV. Sartre Peter Gratton (University of San Diego, USA)
V. De Beauvoir Laura Hengehold (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
Part III: Resources
16. A–Z Glossary
17. A Chronology of Key Events, Texts and Thinkers
18. Research Resources in Existentialism
19. Annotated Guide to Further Reading
Index
About the Author :
Jack Reynolds is Chair of Philosophy at Deakin University, Australia. He has written four books: Chronopathologies: The Politics of Time in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology (2012), Analytic Versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy (2010, with James Chase), Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (2004), and Understanding Existentialism (2006). He has also co-edited five collections: Sartre: Key Concepts (2013), Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides (2010), Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (2008) and Understanding Derrida (Continuum 2004).
Felicity Joseph teaches philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Ashley Woodward is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, UK. He is a founding member of The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, and an editor of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy. He is author of Understanding Nietzscheanism (2011), Nihilism in Postmodernity: Lyotard, Baudrillard, Vattimo (2010), editor of Interpreting Nietzsche (2011) and co-editor of Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (2007) and Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology (2012).
Review :
An exceptionally fruitful addition to the Continuum Companions, this volume on Existentialism gathers together an impressive range of scholars on a wide variety of research areas ranging through the philosophical, the psychoanalytic, the historical, the religious, and the literary to contemporary cognitive science and politics. Highly recommended for students and academics alike. -- Christina Howells, Professor of French, University of Oxford, UK ...this book is a clear achievement and stands out as a key reference and guide for all with an interest in existentialism as a whole or in individual existentialist thinkers. Its depth is encyclopaedic and impressive and its perspective is all at once retrospective, current and forward-looking. -- Sartre Studies International This is a welcome addition to the set of philosophy "companion" books dominated by Oxford, Cambridge, and Wiley-Blackwell. Besides the main section by contemporary scholars on current research and issues in existentialism, the editors provide sections on new directions in existentialism and recent developments in scholarship on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. Also included are a glossary of terms; a chronology of key events in the history of existentialism; research resources including websites, institutions, journals and societies; and an annotated guide to further readings for each of the main existential philosophers. These features add scope and depth that set this book apart from others written for novices. Readers get a comprehensive introduction to existentialism. CHOICE Magazine The spirit of this Companion is that of advocate, teacher and muse, to those drawn to existentialism but unable to fully formulate the continuing relevance and importance of this school of thought. Pierre Hadot's What is Ancient Philosophy? strove to make ancient philosophy a wise and fruitful field around which to build a career and life; so, too, this Companion makes the case for the wisdom of existentialism. -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
