Existentially Challenged (Deda Files, 2)

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Sartre, Jean-Paul (1946). Existentialism is a Humanism . Retrieved 2010-03-08– via Marxists Internet Archive.

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a b Bassnett, Susan; Lorch, Jennifer (March 18, 2014). Luigi Pirandello in the Theatre. Routledge. ISBN 9781134351145 . Retrieved 26 March 2015– via Google Books. Appignanesi, Richard; Zarate, Oscar (2001). Introducing Existentialism. Cambridge, UK: Icon. ISBN 1-84046-266-3. This growing crisis is a real test of China’s statesmanship, just as it challenges the political and diplomatic skills of South Korea and Japan. They all have a deep interest in finding a long-term settlement of the persisting North Korean question rather than having to deal with its perpetual escalation under this young leader, who has carried out 80 missile and nuclear tests in the last six years. Whether it is now possible to halt and dismantle its nuclear weapons programme under international agreement and oversight, as distinct from deterring it with overwhelming US nuclear superiority, is a key issue in the present confrontation. The sheer complexity of what is at stake and the real danger of miscalculating an escalating military strategy with two such volatile leaders as Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump makes this an exceptionally difficult issue. Solomon, Robert C., ed. (2005). Existentialism (2nded.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-517463-1.This book is a sequel to Differently Morphous(released in 2019) and I highly recommend that you read it before you start with this one! It’s one of my favourite audiobook, it’s just a terrific read. Facticity is a limitation and a condition of freedom. It is a limitation in that a large part of one's facticity consists of things one did not choose (birthplace, etc.), but a condition of freedom in the sense that one's values most likely depend on it. However, even though one's facticity is "set in stone" (as being past, for instance), it cannot determine a person: the value ascribed to one's facticity is still ascribed to it freely by that person. As an example, consider two men, one of whom has no memory of his past and the other who remembers everything. Both have committed many crimes, but the first man, remembering nothing, leads a rather normal life while the second man, feeling trapped by his own past, continues a life of crime, blaming his own past for "trapping" him in this life. There is nothing essential about his committing crimes, but he ascribes this meaning to his past.

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The ending's "painful" because it made me feel really uneasy and makes it clear there's even more to this story than there already is. That said, I'm glad the ending happened how it did. It is probably the fact he created them in the first place but he really brings them to life in reading.Now, what is great about this book? The mystery. Excellent crafting of intrigue and solveable before the end without being too easy. The expanding world lore is also exceptionally well crafted, giving off excellent Lovecraftian vibes while not sabotaging the humor. From the general to the specific this wild yarn zeros in on a faith healing cult for a proper mystery. Heidegger read Sartre's work and was initially impressed, commenting: "Here for the first time I encountered an independent thinker who, from the foundations up, has experienced the area out of which I think. Your work shows such an immediate comprehension of my philosophy as I have never before encountered." [84] Later, however, in response to a question posed by his French follower Jean Beaufret, [85] Heidegger distanced himself from Sartre's position and existentialism in general in his Letter on Humanism. [86] Heidegger's reputation continued to grow in France during the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s, Sartre attempted to reconcile existentialism and Marxism in his work Critique of Dialectical Reason. A major theme throughout his writings was freedom and responsibility. Existentially Challenged is the sequel to Differently Morphous and delivers much the same experience as the original. Characters are fleshed out a bit more, ongoing plots are furthered, and all this is illustrated with an oversupply of tortured metaphors and similes (although he has toned this down somewhat since Will Save the Galaxy for Food). I would recommend this book and its predecessor if you are looking for hours of light entertainment along the lines of Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett (but more cynical.) I'm not sure if he's as good as they are, but their influence is strong.

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A major offshoot of existentialism as a philosophy is existentialist psychology and psychoanalysis, which first crystallized in the work of Otto Rank, Freud's closest associate for 20 years. Without awareness of the writings of Rank, Ludwig Binswanger was influenced by Freud, Edmund Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre. A later figure was Viktor Frankl, who briefly met Freud as a young man. [114] His logotherapy can be regarded as a form of existentialist therapy. The existentialists would also influence social psychology, antipositivist micro- sociology, symbolic interactionism, and post-structuralism, with the work of thinkers such as Georg Simmel [115] and Michel Foucault. Foucault was a great reader of Kierkegaard even though he almost never refers to this author, who nonetheless had for him an importance as secret as it was decisive. [116] An early contributor to existentialist psychology in the United States was Rollo May, who was strongly influenced by Kierkegaard and Otto Rank. One of the most prolific writers on techniques and theory of existentialist psychology in the US is Irvin D. Yalom. Yalom states that I had read the first book of this series when it came out in 2019 and enjoyed it a lot. This sequel improves on the first book in pretty much every level, it's just a bit of a shame that Dr. Diablerie is barely in this one. But that's made up for with a bunch fun and interesting characters and Yahtzee's hilarious sense of humor. His ability to poke fun at the current popular culture by turning everything up to at least eleven regularly produces laugh out loud moments of situational comedy or little tongue in cheek moments while still being able to tell a suspenseful supernatural murder mystery story. And reducing Dr. Diablerie's appearences helps to highlight just how ridiculous and over the top funny he really is when he does show up in the most unexpected moments 😀 Let's hope he gets right on with writing the third book in this series. Simone de Beauvoir, an important existentialist who spent much of her life as Sartre's partner, wrote about feminist and existentialist ethics in her works, including The Second Sex and The Ethics of Ambiguity. Although often overlooked due to her relationship with Sartre, [88] de Beauvoir integrated existentialism with other forms of thinking such as feminism, unheard of at the time, resulting in alienation from fellow writers such as Camus. [66]A great detective story in the wonderful world of the Department of Extradimensional Affairs. Though not as good as the first book. I am pleasantly surprised how Yahtzee can repeatedly pull this off. His prose is always full of full of weird analogies and descriptions, yet I'm never annoyed by them. The characters are flat, but they're fun and I like them. Existentialism is associated with several 19th- and 20th-century European philosophers who shared an emphasis on the human subject, despite often profound differences in thought. [4] [2] [5] Among the earliest figures associated with existentialism are philosophers Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche and novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, all of whom critiqued rationalism and concerned themselves with the problem of meaning. In the 20th century, prominent existentialist thinkers included Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Karl Jaspers, Gabriel Marcel, and Paul Tillich. a b Mariani, Umberto (2010). Living Masks: The Achievement of Pirandello. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442693142 . Retrieved 26 March 2015– via Google Books. Yahtzee Croshaw plays tongue in cheek with murder mystery, the church and British spy novels while throwing in a dig at superheroes just because.