New York, NY: The Philosophical Library, 1949. First American Edition. Hardcover. "A well-known French philosopher and poet, speaking from a philosophical milieu which he helped to create, surveys "existentialism" and philosophies of existence in an informal, yet critical, fashion. Philosophy of existence is viewed as a "perennial philosophy," ancient as inspired existential thought, recent as the eloquent reaction of the great Danish thinker, Soren Kierkegaard, to the idealism of Hegel..... More