Title: The Sleeping Beauty
Description: The author uses the symbolism of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale, to examine the current nostalgia of the current age: longing for a "paradise lost". Harper "Draws his analogy with great subtlety and insight: the 1850s fairy godmother 'Progress' ... the 1900s briared castle of 'God is dead", today's awakening to Presence brought about by contemporary prince-philosophers. The Sleeping Beauty is fundamentally a thoughtful interpretation of this folk story in terms of such men as Gabriel Marcel, Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Sartre, and Friedrich Nietzsche, and their particular destinies in relation to the development of philsophic thought of the last hundred years." -- Jacket flap.
Subjects: Existentialism, Modern Philosophy