2. German Existentialism and the Persistence of Metaphysics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I: (Trans) National Contexts
5. 1. Russian Existentialism, or Existential Russianism 37
6. 2. German Existentialism and the Persistence of Metaphysics 65
7. 3. Sisyphus’s Progeny 89
8. 4. Punching Through the Pasteboard Masks 123
9. 5. Angst Across the Channel 145
10. 6. Existentialisms in the Hispanic and Latin American Worlds 180
11. II. Existentialism and Religion
12. 7. Fear and Trembling and the Paradox of Christian Existentialism 211
13. 8. Jewish Co-Existentialism 237
14. 9. Camus the Unbeliever 256
15. III. Migrations
16. 10. Anxiety and Secularization 279
17. 11. Rethinking the “Existential” Nietzsche in Germany 305
18. 12. Situating Frantz Fanon’s Account of Black Experience 336
19. 13. Simone de Beauvoir in Her Times and Ours 360
20. 14. The “Letter on Humanism” 386
21. Contributors 415
22. Index 419