num_pages: 314
description: 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 1990 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.
language: English
title: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
titlecomplete: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
genres: 20th Century, Essays, Art, Unfinished, Theology, Philosophy, Psychology, Classics, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 2475
publisher: Anchor