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Existential America
Existential America
Author: George Cotkin
Europe's leading existential thinkers -- Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus -- all felt that Americans were too self-confident and shallow to accept their philosophy of responsibility, choice, and the absurd. "There is no pessimism in America regarding human nature and social organization," Sartre remarked in 1950, while Beau...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801882005
ISBN-10: 0801882001
Publication Date: 3/25/2005
Pages: 376
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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