This book, first published in 1961, is a careful analysis of this modern movement of thought, and especially of its leading German representative Martin Heidegger. This study presents a sound reading and criticism of the existentialist thinkers.

J. Von Rintelen

1. Transcendent Thought Discarded 2. The Expedient of Existence and the Affirmation of Finiteness 3. Innerworldly Attempts at Transcendence? 4. Beyond Finiteness