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No excuses, existentialism & the meaning of life, Robert Solomon

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No excuses, existentialism & the meaning of life, Robert Solomon

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eng

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lectures speeches

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No excuses

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Robert Solomon

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Great courses on tape

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existentialism & the meaning of life

Summary

This lecture course by Professor Robert C. Solomon of the University of Texas explores existentialism and the leading writers and philosophers who have been associated with this philosophical movement

Table Of Contents

lecture 1. What is existentialism? -- lecture 2. Albert Camus, The Stranger, part I -- lecture 3. Camus, The Stranger, part II -- lecture 4. Camus, The myth of Sisyphus -- lecture 5. Camus, The plague and The fall -- lecture 6. Camus, The fall, part II -- lecture 7. Soren Kierkegaard, On becoming a Christian -- lecture 8. Kierkegaard on subjective truth -- lecture 9. Kierkegaard's Existential dialectic -- lecture 10. Friedrich Nietzsche on Nihilism and the death of God -- lecture 11. Nietzsche, the Immortalist -- lecture 12. Neitzsche on Freedom, fate and responsibility -- lecture 13. Nietzsche, The Ubermensch and the will to power -- lecture 14. Three grand inquisitors, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hesse -- lecture 15. Husserl, Heidegger and phenomenology -- lecture 16. Heidegger on the world and the self -- lecture 17. Heidegger on authenticity -- lecture 18. Jean-Paul Sartre at war -- lecture 19. Sartre on emotions and responsibility -- lecture 20. Sartre's phenomenology -- lecture 21. Satre on bad faith -- lecture 22. Sartre's Being-for-others and No exit -- lecture 23. Sartre on sex and love -- lecture 24. From existentialism to postmodernism

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Existentialism and the meaning of life

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