Existential America by George Cotkin

Existential America

George Cotkin

368 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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