The search for meaning: philosophical vistas. [electronic resource]

Includes bibliographical references.

The search for meaning -- A philosopher looks at science -- Fiction and myth in history -- Conversation with Einstein -- Science as a humanistic activity -- Why do we laugh and cry? -- Tragedy and human values -- Some philosophical considerations of literature -- The current crisis in the realm of values -- Historicism and basic existential ethics -- What are spiritual phenomena? -- Nietzsche and Judaism -- Nietzsche and methodological doubt in ethics -- Existential psychoanalysis and individual psychology -- Considerations of Albert Camus' doctrine -- Tolerance, its meaning and limits -- Kant and our time -- Unamuno and Ortega: the revival of philosophy in Spain -- Ortega y Gasset, existentialism and phenomenology -- Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophical theatre -- The timeliness of Balzac -- The Greek theatre and the meaning of Antigone's struggle -- Mazzini and the meaning of nationalism -- What is man? -- Retrospective and conclusion.