Quotes by William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

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This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's po — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for rev — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically "me — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, u — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the c — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, and graced by the Ren — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more ne — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whate — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy