"Deserves praise on several counts. In the first place, Mrs. Warnock writes from a position of some philosophical
detachment towards the thinkers whose work she expounds....yet she also displays an imaginative sympathy with their
aims and ideas which makes her criticisms of their work all the more worthy of attention."
--Times Literary Supplement
Oxford University Press USA Web Site, April, 2000
Summary
In this popular, highly readable survey, Mary Warnock considers the contributions made to Existentialism by
Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Husserl, and discusses at length the works of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre.
This revised edition includes a postscript reviewing the status of Existentialism in the 1990s and has a thoroughly
updated bibliography.
