Time of Need: Forms of Imagination in the Twentieth Century

Barrett, William

Harper&Row

Time of Need: Forms of Imagination In The Twentieth Century

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1973

Death of the Soul : From Descartes to the Computer: William Barrett

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Women's Health

Oxford University Press

Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the 1990s: a period when the irrational and the absurd are no better integrated than before and when humankind is in even greater danger of destroying its existence without ever understanding the meaning of its existence. Irrational Man begins by discussing the roots of existentialism in the art and thinking of Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Baudelaire, Blake, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Picasso, Joyce, and Beckett. The heart of the book explains the views of the foremost existentialists—Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The result is a marvelously lucid definition of existentialism and a brilliant interpretation of its impact.

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Anchor

The Shape of Illusion

DOUBLEDAY

Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization ,Being, Freedom and the Shape of the Future

The illusion of technique: A search for meaning in a technological civilization

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Anchor Press

Traces the development of philosophical thought from the seventeenth century to today, and explores why questions of the soul figure so little in the minds of present-day technocratic intellectuals

Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computer

Anchor Books

The Truants: Adventures Among the Intellectuals by William Barrett.

The Truants: Adventures Among the Intellectuals

History

Americas

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1982

Recounts the author's life among the intellectuals in New York City with reminiscences of such people as Delmore Schwartz and Mary McCarthy

What Is Existentialism?

GROVE PRESS

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