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Summer 1954 • Vol. XVI No. 3 • Book Reviews |

Existentialism Tamed

By Walter Kaufmann

The Existentialist Revolt by Kurt F. Reinhardt. Bruce. $3.50.

The Existentialists by James Collins. Henry Regnery. $4.50.

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That Kierkegaard with his prolific contempt for parsons and professors should at long last have been translated into English largely by a parson and a professor, that is ironical but […]

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