A Casebook on Existentialism
by William V. Spanos
Category: Existentialism

William V. Spanos / Abraham, Sisyphus, and the Furies -- Literature: Ernest Hemingway / A clean, well-lighted place -- Franz Kafka / A country doctor -- Albert Camus / The guest -- Jean-Paul Sartre / The flies -- Friedrich Durrenmatt / The tunnel -- Eugene Ionesco / The future is in eggs or it takes all sorts to make a world -- Miguel De Unamuno / Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr -- Fyodor Dostoevsky / The legend of the Grand Inquisitor -- W.H. Auden / For the time being -- Commentary and Criticism: Jean-Paul Sartre / We write for our own time -- Kenneth Tynan / Ionesco and the Phantom -- Eugene Ionesco / Hearts are not worn on the sleeve -- Nathan A. Scott, Jr. / The broken center: a definition of the crisis of values in modern literature -- Stanley Cooperman / Kafka's "A Country Doctor": Microcosm of symbolism -- Richard Schechner / The inner and the outer reality -- Philip Rahv / The legend of the grand inquisitor -- Philosophy and Theology: Blaise Pascal / Pensees -- Fyodor Dostoevsky / Notes from underground -- Soren Kierkegaard / Concerning the dedication to "The Individual" -- Soren Kierkegaard / Is there such a thing as an absolute duty toward God? -- Soren Kierkegaard / Dread as a saving experience by means of faith -- Friedrich Nietzsche / Joyful wisdom -- Martin Heidegger / What is metaphysics? -- Jean-Paul Sartre / Existentialism -- Albert Camus / Absurd freedom -- Karl Jaspers / The tension between technical mass-order and human life -- Nikolai Berdyaev / Dream and reality -- Paul Tillich / The courage to be.