The Philosophy And Literature Of Existentialism Book

	Preface
1.	Is Existentialism Definable?	1
2.	A Man As Opposed to Man	12
	Material Determinism	16
	The Nature of Essence	17
	The Meaning of Essence	20
	Example of Essence	23
	Essence and Existence	25
	Materialism, Rationalism, Romanticism, The Modern Dilemma, Myth, Legend, and Symbol	34
	Question of Certitude	40
	Infallibility Rejected, Certitude Challenged, Modern Views; The Fourth Premise: Existentialism	48
	The Existential Man	49
	The Beliefs of the Existential Man	49
3.	The Philosophy of Existentialism	60
	Introductory	60
	The Religious and Ethical Proponents	61
	Two Social Proponents	69
	Three Literary Proponents	70
	Review of Existentialism	76
	The Challenge of Science	79
	Courage to Be "One"
4.	Naturalism, Romanticism, and Existentialism: The Literary Sense	84
	Introductory	84
	Naturalism	85
	Romanticism	88
	Existentialism	91
5.	First Modern Existentialists: Literary Sense	100
	Soren Kierkegaard	100
	Fyodor Dostoevsky	102
	Andre Gide	105
	Franz Kafka	107
	Luigi Pirandello	108
	Ugo Betti	110
	Francois Mauriac	113
6.	Modern Literary Existentialism in Continental Europe	116
	France	116
	Roumania	130
	Germany	133
	Spain	135
	Belgium	138
7.	Modern Literary Existentialism in England	143
8.	Modern Literary Existentialism in the United States	170
	Introductory	170
	Glossary	223
	Bibliography	225
	Index	241