Book Reviews
Autumn 1948
Philosopher’s Circus
The Philosopher’s Way by Jean Wahl. Oxford. $5.00 Wonder, of course, is the beginning of philosophy; and for writers with Existentialist leanings it is the beginning, the middle and […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1947
Two More Existentialists: Karl Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel
The storm around existentialism rages mostly about Sartre and the French atheistic school — of whom even Heidegger is said to have said, “Mein Gott! Das hab’ ich nicht gewollt!” […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1947
L’Homme Est Une Passion Inutile: Sartre and Heidegger
The “stages on life’s way” as Kierkegaard describes them are, first and last, steps in a pilgrimage from the world to God: it is the ultimate confrontation of the individual with […]
Kierkegaard
Winter 1947
The Philosophy
A thinker who hates the abstract complexity of metaphysical systems, yet whose thought is persistently, in fact systematically directed to working through a single all-important problem:—such a thinker’s work should […]