Existential America / George Cotkin.

Author/creator Cotkin, George, 1950-
Format Book
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Descriptionx, 359 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction -- The 'drizzly November' of the American soul -- Kierkegaard comes to America -- A Kierkegaardian age of anxiety -- The vogue of French existentialism -- New York intellectuals and French existentialists -- The canon of existentialism -- 'Cold rage' : Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison -- Norman Mailer's existential errand -- Robert Frank's existential vision -- Camus's rebels -- Existential feminists : Simon de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan -- Conclusion : existentialism today and tomorrow.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-328) and index.
LCCN 2001007186
ISBN0801870372 (acid-free paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks B944.E94 C68 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold