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astyage's review against another edition
5.0
اگه بعد از خوندن بیگانه کامو یا غثیان سارتر به اگزیستانسیالیسم علاقه مند شده اید و دنبال یک گام اول خوب برای ورود به این بحث هستید. این بهترین گزینه ست.
yates9's review against another edition
5.0
A story of the people, the ideas and the history of philosophy of Existentialism with a trace to how it reaches us today.
I can’t find faults with this book that would not just be critique of the specific choices of content emphasis.
I can’t find faults with this book that would not just be critique of the specific choices of content emphasis.
rachelthecrook's review against another edition
5.0
I looooooved this book. I’ve been curious about phenomenology and existentialism since grad school - but reading primary texts with no context and little pre-existing knowledge is a slog. This provided rich insight into the history and personalities of existentialism while providing (what I imagine is) a high-level overview on the philosophy itself. A good book like this always sets my brain ping-ponging around in excitement.
Aside from being intellectually fun - I felt really connected with the ideas and people the author talked about. It a bit less lonely in my existentially-inclined brain, where I often find myself wondering how people get on life without constantly obsessing over meaning and being. I’m in (mostly) good company, it seems!
Aside from being intellectually fun - I felt really connected with the ideas and people the author talked about. It a bit less lonely in my existentially-inclined brain, where I often find myself wondering how people get on life without constantly obsessing over meaning and being. I’m in (mostly) good company, it seems!
tolin_in_search_of_new_stories's review against another edition
4.0
This book is a bit dangerous, because existentialism is dangerous. Existentialism is dangerous because it makes people feel more powerful than they are. There is not enough attention to social structures. In other words, there is not enough attention in existentialism to power. But the book is extremely well written. The biographies are rich and detailed. The understanding provided of the philosophical ideas, including very tricky such ideas like those of Heidegger, are reproduced well. It does a great job of describing the different forms of phenomenology. But I've stopped re-reading it (I was just reading it on loop for a while) because it makes me lose track of social structure and puts me too much into a mood of individualism.
hima_reads's review against another edition
5.0
Absolutely brilliant! It’s a great and accessible introduction to the world of phenomenology and existentialism. Drawing from philosophy, war time experience, and the lives of the many people who inhabit this book (the broad structure though is Heidegger’s life and Sartre’s life, in that order), it takes the reader on a roller coaster ride that neither biography nor philosophy. It mixes the two in a wonderful apricot cocktail — apt, perhaps, for a time when we are more and more given to seeing people as a crowd without faces that has to be infallible and decided. This book reminded me of the real and urgent need to see people and things in context, as flawed, marvellous poetry in motion.
amerasuu's review against another edition
2.0
Look, I admit I am not the audience for this book, I am not interested in philosophy. I read it for book club and found it largely tedious and hard to follow. I was much more interested in the personal lives than the philosophy. However the narrator does have a good voice.