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The average rating for From Rationalism to Existentialism: The Existentialists and Their Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.
| Review # 1 was written on 2015-09-07 00:00:00 John Nava Solomon was my Professor in a course on Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit and was greatly impressed with me and recommended me for Grad school, hence I'm biased. I found his writing on Existentialism clear and precise and comprehensible which is no small thing when you're talking about Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Husserl, Sartre, etc. His critics of course, critiqued him for this very reason, saying he over-simplified and misrepresented the movement from Rationalism to Existentialism and implied some sort of progress in thinking. Text was used by another man I admire:Francis Delaney at Langara College in Vancouver and he liked the book for all these reasons. He was a unique teacher in that his goal was to leave bloody the perceptual hymens of his students and penetrate what he called the 'dull gaze of perplexed malevolence' every instructor/professor confronts in classrooms. He didn't see the podium as an instrument of self aggrandisement, merely a place from which to spin his magic and offer consciousness. |
| Review # 2 was written on 2016-07-07 00:00:00 Cynthia Hillman The best survey of existential philosophers I've read so far. I read it mostly as a primer before reading Sartre's being and nothingness, and as such it was great giving useful background as well as specific analysis of Sartre. I though the chapters on Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, and Sartre were the best. The only weak chapter was on Kierkegaard. Solomon's writing and analysis was as clear as his more popular books while being much more philosophically technical. It also showed to me once again just how much of 20 century continental philosophy is indebted to Hegel, almost every major line of thought can be unpacked from Hegel's writings. |
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