Reviews for On Existentialism

The average rating for On Existentialism based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-08-16 00:00:00 William Hill A great common-sense introduction to existential ideas, through Heidegger, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard. Mark Tanzer uses deft, dry humor, and word by word demystification of the major ideas and arguments about this prescient philosophical period.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-12-01 00:00:00 Tracy Weatherman This was an excellent and well-structured look into the ontologies and ethics of four well-known existentialist philosopers. Tanzer begins this short look into existential philosophy with an introduction and look at Plato's theory of knowledge and why it is relevant to "knowing" in an existential sense. Tanzer then analyzes the aforementioned ontologies and ethics of Nietzche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Sartre and compares and contrasts each. Tanzer's overarching thesis for analyzing these existentialists and the philosophy of existentialism, in general, is that reality and morality, furthermore, is indeterminate. Whether one agrees or disagrees with this statement is beside the quality of this short book. I can see both sides. Overall, great work!! Short, excellently-structured, and easy to understand because of analogies!