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Our Existential Predicament:

Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books, 2006—5th edition)       312 pages
(ISBN: 978-0-89231-950-3; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: B819.P37 2006)

    This book reformulates the deepest form of human suffering,
which has been felt by sensitive human persons
since the dawn of consciousness.  
In the earliest phases of human thinking,
this Dilemma, Predicament, or Malaise
was usually expressed in mythological terms.
But later philosophy and psychology attempted to explain our Malaise
using various philosophical and psychological models.
This book explores our Existential Predicament in the following forms:
existential loneliness, depression, absurdity, meaninglessness,
void, anxiety, splitting, guilt, death, despair, & insecurity.   

Preliminary materials about the whole book:

About the Author—And the Book

Fifth Edition now in print

Copyright page—SUBJECT classifications for this book

Chart: The Human Condition vs. Our Existential Predicament

From Our Existential Predicament to Existential Freedom
    A Synopsis of each chapter

Closing materials related to the whole book:

Bibliography of other books describing our Existential Predicament

Bibliography of other books describing our Existential Predicament
—and its Solution.

The Contents of

Our Existential Predicament:

Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death

by James Leonard Park

The first page or two of any chapter will appear if you click the blue title.
The entire text of one chapter—the shortest—will appear.

Introduction
    Transcending Our Existential Predicament                            1

           Becoming and Remaining Existentially Free                  24

Chapter 1 Existential Loneliness:
    Deeper than the Reach of Love                                             25

Chapter 2 Existential Depression:
    Deeper than Psychological Depression                                 39

           Finding Joy, Wholeness, and Fulfillment                         52

Chapter 3 Existential Absurdity:
    Is Life Worth Living?                                                              53

           Finding Harmony, Security, and Hope                             68

Chapter 4 Existential Meaninglessness:
    The Collapse of 'Meanings' and Illusions                               69

           Living in Daily Response to Existential Freedom             76

Chapter 5 The Existential Void:
    Discovering Our Bottomless Emptiness                                 77

           Joy                                                                                  88

Chapter 6 Existential Anxiety:
    Angst                                                                                     89

           Peace                                                                            150

Chapter 7 Existential Splitting:
    Søren Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death                           151

           Fulfillment                                                                     164

Chapter 8 Existential Guilt:
    Deeper than Moral Conscience                                            165

           Three Dimensions of Death                                           180

Chapter 9 An Existential Understanding of Death:
    A Phenomenology of Ontological Anxiety                            181

Chapter 10 Existential Despair:
    Floating Down the River of Despair                                      253

Chapter 11 Existential Insecurity:
    When all Security-Operations Fail                                         267

Afterword
    Obstacles to Existential Freedom                                          275

Bibliography                                                                              309

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    If you would like to read other parts (or all) of this book, 
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    If you would like to see courses based on this book,
go to Our Existential Predicament classes .


    If you would like to join an ongoing e-mail discussion of this book,
including discussions with the author, go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExistentialFreedom

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AUTHOR: James Leonard Park
TITLE:  Our Existential Predicament
SUBTITLE: Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER: B819.P37 2006)
NUMBER OF PAGES: 312
SIZE: 8-1/2 inches wide  X  11 inches high  X  3/4 inch thick.
PUBLISHER: Existential Books
PUBLICATION DATE:  April 9, 2006—5th edition
BINDING: aluminum screw posts (5)
BINDING: comb
BINDING: loose-leaf notebook
ISBN: 978-0-89231-950-3
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perspectives on our Existential Predicament:

Existential Anxiety: Angst

Existential Depression

Existential Loneiness


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