First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Paul S. MacDonald is Lecturer in Philosophy at Murdoch University in Western Australia. He is the author of Descartes and Husserl: The Philosophical Project ofRadical Beginnings (1999).
Acknowledgements Introduction: background and themes 1. Philosophizing Starts with Our Situation (1932), Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) 2. On the Ontological Mystery (1933), Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) 3. History as a System (1935), José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) 4. An Absurd Reasoning (1942), Albert Camus (1913-1960) 5. Reflections on the Cartesian Cogito (1945), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) 6. Letter on Humanism (1947), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) 7. Ambiguity and Freedom (1947), Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) 8. A New, Authentic Way of Being Oneself (1948), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Index