'Praiseworthy because it grapples with the fundamental assumptions of these competing traditions, and does so with clarity and conviction.'--David M. Thompson, Philosophy and Literature. 'This is . . . an enormously ambitious project, both for the mastery of diverse traditions and perspectives it requires, and for the philosophical acuity and imagination it presupposes. . . . Davis's work has an original and important contribution to make . . . to the intellectual situation of our time.'--Jerrold Seigel, author of The Idea of the Self.

A profound, challenging, wide-ranging book, back in print for a new generation 'Inwardness and Existence accomplishes what no book before or after has even approximated: it demonstrates with great lucidity and insight the shared philosophical project that animates psychoanalysis, Marxism, existentialism, and Hegelian dialectics. Davis roots the reader in the enterprise of questioning what is given and probing beyond what is safe in order to demonstrate that psychoanalytic inquiry, Marxist politics, existential reflection, and dialectical connection all move within the same orbit. No one who reads it will ever think about existence itself in the same way again. Davis's landmark work will profoundly transform anyone who reads it.'--Todd McGowan, author of The Real Gaze: Film Theory after Lacan.

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