Conrad's Existentialism

255 Pages·1991·15.402 MB·English

by  Otto Bohlmann

Conrad's Existentialism
Otto Bohlmann
CONRAD'S EXISTENTIALISM
Also by Otto Bohlmann
and published by Macmillan
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Conrad's
Existentialism
OTTO BOHLMANN
©Otto Bohlmann 1991
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Bohlmann, Otto
Conrad's existentialism.
1. Fiction in English. Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
I. Title
839.912
ISBN 0-333-43619-9
Research for this book was funded in part by the Human Sciences Research Council.
The conclusions reached in the book are not to be attributed to the H.S.R.C.
To the Memory of My Father
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Contents
List of Plates ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Preface xiii
1 Being in the World 1
2 The Quest for Selfhood 46
3 Condemned to Be Free 104
4 Being with Others 132
Epilogue 193
Notes 197
Select Bibliography 209
Index 217
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List of Plates
Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924 (The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Yale University).
Soren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855 (Bent Mann Fotografi/Der Konelige
Bibliotek).
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900 (Ullstein Bilderdienst).
Karl Jaspers, 1883-1969 (Ullstein Bilderdienst).
Gabriel Marcel, 1889-1973 (Collection Viollet, Paris).
Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976 (Ullstein Bilderdienst).
Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980 (Collection Viollet, Paris).
Albert Camus, 1913-1960 (Bettmann Archive, New York).
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