Existentialism : An Introduction (Hardcover)

Preface
What is Existentialism?
Why this Book?
Chapter 1 Existentialism and Modernity
Roots of the Western Self
The Emergence of the Modern Worldview
Existentialism as a Cultural Mood
Chapter 2 The Insider’s Perspective
The Problem of Detachment and Objectivity
Subjective Truth
Perspectivism
Phenomenology
Chapter 3 Being-in-the-World
Being-in
Undoing Dualisms
The Work-World
The Perceptual World
Aspects of Alterity
Chapter 4 Self and Others
The Problem of Substance
Embodiment
The Self as a Tension
Conformism and Self-Deception
Chapter 5 Freedom
The Core Idea of Existentialism
Freedom and Determinism
Radical Freedom
Situated Freedom
Creature and Creator
Chapter 6 Authenticity
Moods and the Problem of the Real Self
Becoming an Individual
Living with Style
Anxiety and Resoluteness
Bad Faith and Nothingness
Chapter 7 Ethics
Anything Goes
Subjectivism or Historicism
Intercorporeality
I and Thou
Chapter 8 Contributions to Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
The Problem of Medicalization
Anxiety, Embodiment, and Psychotherapy
Is Existentialism Anti-Psychiatry?
Chapter 9 Existentialism Today
Oppression and Recognition
Self and Nature
Self and Dukkha
Health and Illness
Conclusion