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Author(s): Alvin P. Dobsevage
Review by: Alvin P. Dobsevage
Source: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Dec., 1953), pp. 265-266
Published by: International Phenomenological Society
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REVIEWS 265
Thinkers.
Six Existentialist H. J. BLACKHAM. London,Routledgeand Ke-
ganPaul, Ltd. 1951.Pp. vii,173.
(Owingtoproduction thisbookwasnotpublished
difficulties until1952.)
If existentialism
is a movement thatstemsfromtheseriousness ofthe
problemsof moderncivilization and verylittlehas been said about its
systematicnaturein theAmerican andEnglishphilosophicalreviews,then
certainlyMr.Blackham'sclearand conciseaccountoftheviewsofKierke-
gaard,Nietzsche,Jaspers, Marcel,Heidegger,and Sartreoffersa friendly
and not uncriticalsummation ofthisnewontology withrootsin certain
ancientideasthataffirm individualism.
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266 PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICALRESEARCH
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