{"id":3126,"date":"2018-05-08T08:53:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/president\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2018-08-08T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:51:15","slug":"the-existentialists-survival-guide-how-to-live-authentically-in-an-inauthentic-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/president\/2018\/05\/08\/the-existentialists-survival-guide-how-to-live-authentically-in-an-inauthentic-age\/","title":{"rendered":"The Existentialist\u2019s Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Gordon Marino<\/h2>\n

HarperOne, 2018<\/h4>\n

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Gordon Marino, Professor of Philosophy at St. Olaf, directs the College\u2019s Hong-Kierkegaard Library. He is also a prolific essayist, boxing writer, and public intellectual. The Existentialist\u2019s Survival Guide<\/em> combines his passion for existentialism generally, and the writings of Kierkegaard specifically, with his essayist\u2019s instinct to ruminate on the human condition.
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This must have been a tough book to write, because it lays bare passages in the author\u2019s life that he\u2019s not proud of now: violence, addiction, broken relationships. At one point Marino refers to the book as a \u201cmemoir,\u201d and it certainly contains elements of that genre. But the point of disclosing those passages in his life is to identify the kinds of challenges we all face as individuals\u2014his chapter titles are \u201canxiety,\u201d \u201cdepression and despair,\u201d \u201cdeath,\u201d \u201cauthenticity,\u201d \u201cfaith,\u201d \u201cmorality,\u201d \u201clove\u201d\u2014and then to offer ways to address them from the writings of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Camus, Sartre, Kierkegaard, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n

You might be saying to yourself, \u201cIt\u2019s all well and good for a philosophy professor to look to Heidegger to address his issues, but ordinary people won\u2019t get anything from the philosophers people read in college.\u201d I dare you to test that view by reading this book. It\u2019s an earnest attempt to translate the insights of some powerful thinkers into practical, consequential guidance for anyone struggling with living authentically.
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