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A victim of Gleichschaltung A philosophy relevant to life The spectre of phenomenology  \nThe looking-glass rivals Husserl’s manifesto of a vocation The subject-object differential Natural and theoretical attitudes A case-history of scepticism Ego cogito, ergo sum Descartes’ great error Res cogitans: the thinking thing The sceptical booby-trap The existential sacrifice Whose “crisis” is it?  \nSuicide by economy of thought Cartesian meditations on epochē The Husserlian epochē In what sense “is” consciousness? A parenthetical gaze A template of suicide  \nA technicolour Joseph’s-coat of suicide A sceptic skeleton in the closet Sartre on suicide  \n“In-itself” and “for-itself”  \nBeing free for death ……a resoluteness for history   also in 1927  \nDoes philosophy have office hours?  \nLiving in (im)partiality The life problem of vocation Entireness in parenthesis To see originally The problem of intentionality Cutting the umbilical cord Only a question of words There is no beyond language  \nAbschattungen – perception in profile Funes the Memorious Is undivided attention possible?  \nWhere is invariance? Shadows in Plato’s cave Are ideas “real”?  \nHusserl’s nonconformist Platonism What is evidence?  \nWhen the walls sweat Kierkegaard’s dramatis personae Kierkegaard’s bogeyman, Hegel The unrelieved conscience of being Falling into faith  \nThe scandal of faith  \nA man in dark times A strategy of pessimism The failure of science The spectre of Marx An Existentialist anti-colonialism The Existentialism that never was  \nA vintage Existentialism Heidegger on parole The sting in the tail Heidegger on endless parole   is it over with Husserl? A sordino theology Preaching the futural Perhaps by accident … A return to fulfilled scepticism The grey breath of reasoning For reasons of history Words of reckoning  \nA reduction to absolute existence Existence need not be  \nBeing is history  \nWhat hope of human still “being”? Being and recession to nihilism  \nSalvation from the thing A purge for nausea  \nActs of nihilation A conscious pact of freedom A lack of being“Existence precedes essence”Freedom is without history The ecstasy of time A draught from the well The redeeming Advent Time talk    \nThe time-partials of consciousness  \nThe retained slipping-away The socially partial horizons  \nThe moment of history Heidegger ’s Mein Kampf Rassengedanke: racial thought A prophecy from Germany The crisis of modernity Will to Power as a","cbCaigiNQyd4lGnz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigiNQyd4lGnz","pdf",104696039,435,"English","# Contents\n## A question of absurdity\n## Into the night and fog\n## Vichy water into blood\n## Republic of silence\n## Light without effulgence\n## Bergson’s resistance\n## Swimming in polluted waters\n## How is it with Heidegger?\n## For the time being …\n## A graveyard of words\n## What is the attraction of Existentialism?\n## Self-deception, bad faith and authenticity\n## Meaning for a “KZler”\n## Have the “Night and Fog” truly lifted?\n## Metaphysical or “virgin” suicide\n## The absurd forbids suicide\n## Is death necessary?\n## Technology is a metaphysics at its end\n## What Existentialism isn’t\n## Is no one an Existentialist?\n## The origin of Existentialism\n## And where is Heidegger?","[{\"question\":\"Which major thinkers and themes are covered alongside existentialism?\",\"answer\":\"The contents reference figures such as Heidegger, Husserl, Descartes, Sartre, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Marx, alongside themes like phenomenology, language, skepticism, faith, memory, technology, and history.\"}]","Introducing Existentialism | PDF",670]