Humanistic Existentialism: The Literature of Possibility (Bison Book S)

Click for larger cover scan Humanistic Existentialism The Literature of Possibility Paper: 1959, X, 419, CIP.LC 59-11732 ISBN : 0-8032-5229-3 Price: $29.95 University of Nebraska Press -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This study in humanistic existentialism is highly informative as well as entertaining. It is a scholarly, detailed analysis of the literary art, the philosophical ideas, and the psychologies of Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. It is also a competent effort to explain the positive implications for the theory of freedom and possibility which lie half buried under this literature of nothingness, alienation, and absurdity. . . . Miss Barnes makes thoroughly enjoyable reading of a subject-matter which might have seemed forbidding. --Herbert W. Schneider, Journal of Philosophy. Recommended unqualifiedly as the most thorough and reliable exposition of the works of Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir to have appeared in this country. --Willard Colston, Chicago Sun-Times. Those who want a real understanding of existentialism instead of the usual superficial generalizations are certain to gain it from this book. --Walter Kaufmann, The American Scholar. The book captures much of the forlorn dark grandeur of the existentialist vision of the human condition. --Yale Review. The philosophy of Sartre is presented accurately and with rare elegance and simplicity. . . . The section on psychoanalysis compares Sartre to Freud, then to Horney and Fromm, then to the phenomenologists. The treatment is fair-minded and careful. --Robert Champigny, L'Esprit Crateur.