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My experience with philosophy is more or less the equivalent of muddling through Plato as an undergrad, except we didn't do Plato, we did neo-Platonism (in Renaissance Intellectual History, and I most remember Toynbee and Hegel as philosophers who wrote at length about history.
My foray into existentialism - besides reading Camus and other in French lit - was stumbling across "The Outsider" by Colin Wilson, a sort of layman's introduction to existentialism, and I found it fascinating.
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Date: 2007-04-20 02:41 pm (UTC)My experience with philosophy is more or less the equivalent of muddling through Plato as an undergrad, except we didn't do Plato, we did neo-Platonism (in Renaissance Intellectual History, and I most remember Toynbee and Hegel as philosophers who wrote at length about history.
My foray into existentialism - besides reading Camus and other in French lit - was stumbling across "The Outsider" by Colin Wilson, a sort of layman's introduction to existentialism, and I found it fascinating.