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Pathfinder : Existentialism

Scope and definition :

Existentialism is the philosophy that places emphasis on individual existence, freedom, and choice. Existentialism stresses the individuality of existence, and the problems that arise with said existence. Because there is so much diversity in the philosophy of existentialism, a concrete definition is hard to put down. Certain themes are common to almost all existential writing, which helps mark the writing as such. The term itself suggests one major theme, the stress on concrete, individual existence, and on subjectivity, individual freedom and choice. [Quoted from: http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/cushing/263/exist/existentialism.html].

Used For :

• Existenzphilosophie

Broader Terms :

• Ontology
• Phenomenology
• Philosophy, Modern
Self

Related Terms :

• Epiphanism
• Relationism

Narrower Terms :

• Christianity and existentialism
• Concrete (Philosophy)
• Existential ethics
• Existential phenomenology
• Existential psychology

BOOKS

Reference sources located at the Information-Reference Section, 2nd floor:

• Dictionary of existentialism. Haim Gordon. B 819 D5 1999
• A history of philosophy. Frederick Copleston. B72 .C6 2003

Texts located at the Circulation Section, 3rd floor:

• Art & existentialism. Arturo B. Fallico. N 72 F49 F34 1962
• Basic writings of existentialism. Gordon Marino. B819 .B37 2004
• Being and nothingness : an essay in phenomenological ontology. Jean-Paul Sartre. B2430.S33 E813 2001
• Between existentialism and Marxism : Sartre on philosophy, politics, psychology, and the arts. Jean-Paul Sartre. B 2430 S33 S5713 1974
• Christian existentialism : a Berdyaev anthology. Donald A. Lowrie. B 4238 B42 E5 1965
• Christianity and the existentialists. Carl Michalson. B 819 M5
• Contemporary philosophy : studies of logical positivism and existentialism. Frederick C. Copleston. B 824.6 C6
• Contemporary philosophy : studies of logical positivism and existentialism. Frederick C. Copleston. B 824.6 C6 1963
• Contemporary philosophy : studies of logical positivism and existentialism. Frederick C. Copleston. B 824.6 C6 1963b
• East of existentialism : the tao of the west. Ray Billington. B 53 B54 1990
• Essays in existentialism. Jean-Paul Sartre. B819 .S16 1993
• Existence and the existent. Jacques Maritain. B 2430 M33 C6813 1957
• Existential phenomenology. William A. Luijpen. B 829.5 L813 1960
• Existential psychoanalysis. Jean-Paul Sartre. B2430.S32 E5
• Existential psychoanalysis. Jean-Paul Sartre. B 2430 S32 E5 1981
• Existentialism. John Macquarrie. B 819 M25 1973
• Existentialism and alienation in American literature. Sidney Walter Finkelstein. PS 228 E9 F57 1965
• Existentialism and human emotions. B 819 S1713 1957b
• Existentialism and the modern predicament. Frederick H. Heinemann. B 819 H4
• Existentialism and the philosophical tradition. Diane Barsoum Raymond. B 819 E94 1991
• Existentialism and Thomism. Jospeh C. Mihalich. B 819 M54 1960
• Existentialism as philosophy. Fernando Molina. B 819 M65 1962
• The existentialism of Alberto Moravia. Joan Ross and Donald Freed. PQ 4829 O6 Z87 1972.
• Existentialism versus Marxism : conflicting views on humanism. George Novack. B 819 N6
• The existentialist revolt : the main themes and phases of existentialism, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Jaspers, Sartre, Marcel. Kurt F. Reinhardt. B 819 R4 1960
• Existing : an introduction to existential thought. Steven Luper. B 819 E97 2000
• Foundations for personality study : an Adrian van Kaam reader. Adrian L. Van Kaam. BF698 V34 1983
• German existentialism. Martin Heidegger. B 3279 H47 E54
• Introducing the existentialists : imaginary interviews with Sartre, Heiegger, and Camus. Robert C. Solomon. B 819 S67 1981
• Introduction to existentialism. Marjorie Grene. B819 .G74 1959
• An introduction to existentialism. Robert G. Olson. B 819 O45 1962
• A layman's introduction to religious existentialism. Eugene B. Borowitz. B 819 B6 1966
• Man's search for meaning. Viktor E. Frankl. D805.G3 F713 1985
• Man's search for meaning : an introduction to logotherapy. Viktor E. Frankl. D805.G3 F713 1984
• Modern gloom and Christian hope. Hilda C. Graef. BT 1213 G7
• Nature, history, and existentialism and other essays in the philosophy of history. Karl Lowith. D 16.9 L6 1981a
• Paths to the present : aspects of European thought from romanticism to existentialism. Eugen Weber. PN6014 .P27 1970
• Perspective on reality : readings in metaphysics from classical philosophy to existentialism. Jesse A. Mann, Gerald F. Kreyche, George F. McLean ... [et al.] BD 95 M3
• Phenomenology and existentialism. Robert C. Solomon. B 829.5 P434 1980.
• Phenomenology and existentialism : an introduction. Reinhardt Grossmann. B 829.5 G76 1984
• The philosophy of existentialism. Gabriel Marcel. B819 .M3813 1956
• Reality, man and existence : essential works of existentialism. H.J. Blackham. B819 .B55 1971
• Reason and existenz : five lectures. Karl Jaspers. B3279.J33 V4313 1955
• Recent thought in focus. Donald Nicholl. B804.N5
• Restless adventure : essays on contemporary expressions of existentialism. Roger L. Shinn [et al.] B 819 S5
• Six existentialist thinkers. H.J. Blackham. B 819 B56 1959
• Towards the fullness of life : reflections on the daily living of the faith. Kurien Kunnumpuram. BV4637 .K86 2009
• Understanding existentialism. Jack Reynolds. B819 .R49 2006
• Using Sartre : an analytical introduction to early Sartrean themes. Gregory McCulloch. B 2430 S34 M3 1994

Texts located at the Br. Benedict LRC, AGH Bldg., 18th floor:

• The discovery of being : writings in existential psychology. Rollo May. BF204.5 .M39 1986
• What is existentialism? William Barrett. BD355 .B37 1965

Texts located at the Special Collection : 

Calderon Collection, Archives Section  4th floor:

• Existentialism and modern literature : an essay in existential criticism. Davis Dunbar McElroy. PN771 .M34 1963
• Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre. Walter Kaufmann. B 819 E95 1956
• Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre. Walter Kaufmann. B819 .E95 1975

Foronda Collection, Archives Section  4th floor:

• Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre. Walter Kaufmann. B 819 E95 1956b
• Irrational man : a study in existential philosophy. William Barrett. B819 .B3 1962b

Quito Collection, Archives Section  4th floor:

• Critical existentialism. Nicola Abbagnano. B 819 A213 1969
• Critique de la raison dialectique. Jean-Paul Sartre. B 2430 S33 C7 1960 v.1
• Crossroads in philosophy : existentialism, naturalism, theistic realism. James Collins. B791 .C59 1969
• De J.-P. Sartre á L. Lavelle, ou, Desagregation et reintegration. Gonzague Truc. B819 .T78 1946
• Encounter with nothingness : an essay on existentialism. Helmut Kuhn. B 819 K84 1949
• Existence and the existent. Jacques Maritian. B2430.M33 C6813 1948
• The existentialists : a critical study. James D. Collins. B819 .C65 1952
• L'Existentialisme. Paul Foulquie. B819 .F68 1958
• Existentialism and religious belief. David E. Roberts. B819 .R6 1959
• The existentialism theology of Paul Tillic. Bernard Martin. BX4827.T53 M37 1964
• Existenzphilosophie : drei Vorlesungen gehalten am Freien Deutschen Hochstift in Frankfurt A.M. September 1937. Karl Jaspers. B3279 .J3 1956
• L'etre et le neant : essai d'ontologie phenomenologique. J.-P. Sartre. B 819 S165 1957
• Marxism and existentialism. Walter Odajnyk. B 809.8 O3 1965
• Moral perspectives in Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism. Magin Borrajo. B 2430 S33 E8 1968
• Psychotherapy and existentialism : selected papers on logotherapy. Viktor E. Frankl. RC 480.5 F7 1968
• Reason and Existenz : five lectures. Karl Jasper. B3279.J33 V4313 1959
• The transcendence of the ego : an existentialist theory of consciousness. Jean-Paul Sartre. B819 .S2613 1957
• The transcendence of the ego : an existentialist theory of consciousness. Jean-Paul Sartre. B 819 S2613 1957b

Bienvenido Santos Collection, Archives Section  4th floor:

• Hemingway and the dead gods : a study in existentialism. John Killinger. PS3515.E37 Z667 1965

Sotto Collection, Archives Section  4th floor:

• A casebook on existentialism. William V. Spanos. PN 6071 E9 C37 1966

PERIODICALS
PRINT

(Periodicals Section, 2nd floor)

• American Psychologist
• International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
• Journal of Applied Philosophy
• Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

ELECTRONIC
EBSCO Host
http://search.ebscohost.com/

American Psychologist

• Effects of the existential perspective on morality. Key Sun. American Psychologist Vol 48(3). Mar 1993. pp. 295-296.
• Existentialism and development. Brian Vandenberg. American Psychologist Vol 48(3). Mar 1993. pp. 296-297.
• Existentialism and epistemology. Gary Kose. American Psychologist Vol 48(3). Mar 1993. pp. 294-295.
• Existentialism, psychology, and psychotherapy. Lawrence A. Pervin. American Psychologist Vol 15(5). May 1960. pp. 305-309.
• Is epistemology enough? An existential consideration of development. Brian Vandenberg. American Psychologist, Vol 46(12). Dec 1991. pp. 1278-1286.

Business Ethics: A European Review

• Business Ethics and Existentialism. Ian Ashman, Diana Winstanley. Business Ethics: A European Review 15(3). p. 218-233. July 2006.
• The Role of Existentialism in Ethical Business Decision-Making. James Agarwal, David Cruise Malloy. Business Ethics: A European Review 9(3). p. 143-154. July 2000.

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice

• Logotherapy and existentialism. Viktor E. Frankl. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, Vol 4(3), Aug, 1967. pp. 138-142.
• Review of "Psychotherapy and existentialism: Selected papers on logotherapy". Clifford H. Swensen. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, Vol 5(2), 1968. pp. 122.
• Existentialism: Toward a theory of psychotherapy for women. Frances-Dee Burlin; Robert A. Guzzetta. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, Vol 14(3), Fal, 1977. pp. 262-266.
• Review of "The psychology of existence: An integrative, clinical perspective". Pauline Rose Clance. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, Vol 35(3), Fal, 1998. pp. 431.

Sartre Studies International: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture

• On the Problem of Origin in Sartre's Phenomenology: Essentialism versus Unlimited Semiosis. Shawn Gorman. Sartre Studies International: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture 15(1). p. 39-53. 2009.
• Sartre's 'Alternative' Conception of Phenomena in 'Being and Nothingness'. Eric Tremault. Sartre Studies International: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture 15(1). p. 24-38. 2009.
• Sartre's 'Critique of Dialectical Reason' and the Inevitability of Violence: Human Freedom in the Milieu of Scarcity. Michael J. Monahan. Sartre Studies International: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture 14(2). p. 48-70. 2008.
• Thinking Things: Heidegger, Sartre, Nancy. Marie-Eve Morin. Sartre Studies International: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture. 15(2), p. 35-53. 2009.
• Was Existentialism Truly a Humanism? Rudi Visker. Sartre Studies International: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture. 13(1). p. 3-15. 2007.

Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection 1890 - current
http://online.sagepub.com/collection.dtl?coll=POLI

Political Research Quarterly

• Existentialism: a Reaction To the Age of Organization. James W. Davis, JR. Political Research Quarterly, September 1963; vol. 16, 3: pp. 541-547.
• The Existential Phenomenological Alternative To Dichotomous Thought. Charles J. Fox. Political Research Quarterly, September 1980; vol. 33, 3: pp. 357-379.
• A Restatement of Political Theory: a Note On Eric Voegelin's "the New Science of Politics". Hans Aufricht. Political Research Quarterly, September 1953; vol. 6, 3: pp. 458-468.
• Is Snobbery a Formal Value? Considering Life At the End of Modernity. John Adams Wettergreen, JR. Political Research Quarterly, March 1973; vol. 26, 1: pp. 109-129.
• Paul Tillich's New Science of Values. Louis C. Midgley. Political Research Quarterly, June 1962; vol. 15, 2: pp. 235-253.

THESES AND DISSERTATION 
LOCAL
(Archives Section, 4th floor)

• Christian existentialism in the fiction of Gregorio Brillantes. Liza P. Almonte. TU05517
• Death in the eyes of Heideggerian, Marcelian existentialism and Zen buddhism. Mary Ann M. Tolete. TU08337
• Encountering the mystery of life through the philosophy of Marcel. Sherie Lyn Chua. TU08329
• Existential freedom over death : An analysis of final destination in the light of sartrean existentialism. Maria Melinda O. Ortega. TU12529
• Existential triump : an analysis on the death of a significant other. Adie Rodriguez Isidro. TU07247
• Jean-Paul Sarte's literature as philosophy. Giannina G. De Leon. TU02345
• Kierkegaard's subjectivity : a passion-religious approach in decision-making. Dino Marc Pallasigui. TU08335
• The philosophical fragments in Hermann Hesse's literary works. Mary Laureen L. Velasco. TG02210
• The possibility of the soldier as an existentially authentic person. Napoleon Maria Casas Justo. TU11145
• Teleological renunciation of the moral in the absolute paradox motif : a dialectical analysis of kierkegaardian infinite resignation in existential theism and bahala na. Larnie Sam Aldea Tabuena. TG02907
• The theoretical possibility of transcending the social into the interhuman in the philosophy of Martin Buber. TU08328

ARTICLES
(Periodicals Section, 2nd floor)

• Heidegger's concept of authentic existence in the context of Dasein's spiritual, temporal, and historical dimensions. Eddie R. Babor. Diwa 30(2) : November 2005. p.42-61.
• The open secret : historical consideration in contemporary East-West comparative existentialism. Unitas 74 : March 2001. p. 55-84.

(Filipiniana Section, 4th floor)

• Atheistic existentialism. Villacorta, Ernest Geir Mercado Villacorta and Rolando M. Gripaldo. The Philosophical landscape : a panoramic perspective of philosophy. B5221 P49 2008 p. 369-383.

VERTICAL FILE
(Information-Reference Section, 2nd floor)

• What dreams may come : an existential journey with Hieronymus Bosch. Cal C. Canaly and Thomas B. Slater. The Arts of Psychotherapy 30 : 2003. p. 35+ VVF0000004.

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
(Archives Section, 4th floor)

• A comparative study on the theme of human existence in the novels of Albert Camus and F. Sionil Jose. Feorillo Petronillo A. Demetrio, III. Kritike 2(1) : June 2008. p. 50-67.
• Existentialism and phenomenology: an introduction. Emerita S. Quito. Dialogue 5(10): 49-57 Je '69
• The existentialism of Jean - Paul Sarte. Raymundo A. Briones.
• Goodbye, existentialism, hello structuralism. Emerita S. Quito.
• Martin Heidegger : mula penomenolohiya hanggang eksistensiyalismo hanggang hermeneutika. Romualdo E. Abulad. Malay 8(1&2) : 1989-1990. p. 7-64.
• The meaning of existentialism. Emerita S. Quito. Unitas 40:257-276 Je '67
• Reflections on existentialism. Nancy O. Chua.
• Virtual authenticity : Facebook updates the Pinoy existentialist's status. Hazel T. Biana. Proceedings of the 2010 DLSU Arts Congress [with the theme:] The Continuing Relevance of Philippine Culture and Arts held at the De La Salle University-Manila, February 17-18, 2010. p. 19-24.

FOREIGN
PROQUEST Digital Dissertations
http://www.umi.com/pqdauto

• The art of existentialism: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer and the American existential tradition. J'aime L. Sanders, Ph.D., University of South Florida, 2007, 204 pages; AAT 3306890
• Chekhov's existentialism: The ethics of outsidedness. Yuri Corrigani, Ph.D., Princeton University, 2008, 223 pages; AAT 3324298
• Existentialism and exegesis: Being and the Bible in Bultmann and Tillich. Courtney S. Wilder, Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2008, 364 pages; AAT 3309118
• Existentialism in Harry Potter. Covey Jordan Green, M.A., Angelo State University, 2008, 79 pages; AAT 1456189
• Existentialism with regard to science in twentieth-century Argentinean literature. Ho Sang Yoon, Ph.D., Washington University, 2004, 278 pages; AAT 3147469

AUDIO VISUAL MATERIALS
(Systems' Services, 2nd floor)

• Great philosophers. [Volume 11], Husserl, Heidegger and modern existentialism [videorecording]. V001657
• Great philosophers. [Volume 13], Nietzsche [videorecording]. V001659

INTERNET WEBSITES
(Cafe@the library, Ground floor; Computer Workstations, 2nd and 3rd floors)

The cry
http://www.thecry.com/existentialism/
[Retrieved: February 18, 2011]

The site provides information on existentialism and of different existentialist like Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Allen, Sartre, Jaspers, Camus, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, Descartes, de Beauvoir and Rilke.

The existential primer
http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/
[Retrieved: February 18, 2011]

The site provides basic information about existentialism.

Freebase.com - Existentialism
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/existentialism
[Retrieved: February 18, 2011]

The site provides information on films, theatre and literatures themed or focusing on existentialism.

Jean Paul Sartre - Sartre.org
http://www.sartre.org/
[Retrieved: February 18, 2011]

The site offers information about Jean Paul Sartre, his works, caricatures, views, quotes, interviews, writings and biography.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosopy - Sartre's Existentialism
http://www.iep.utm.edu/sartre-ex/
[Retrieved: February 18, 2011]

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Compiled by: Ms. Yolanda F. Odsinada/Mr. Harold T. Franco
Date: February 2011