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The author is concerned with steering existentialism in a positive direction, making it at once more rigorous as to method and more genuinely relevant to the human situation. In arguing that possibility is the fundamental mode and sense of human reality, he challenges the positions of other existentialists who, though they employ the concept of the possible as the basic tool of philosophical analysis, do so incoherently. By a careful and consistent use of this concept, he clarifies its relations with those of inquiry, commitment, time, freedom and death.

Existentialism in italy -- What is existentialism? -- Existentialism is a positive philosophy -- Faith, philosophy, religion -- Science and freedom -- The possible the virtual -- Problems of a philosophy of the possible -- The appeal to reason and the techniques of reason -- Experience and metaphysics -- The method of philosophy -- Historiographic work in philosophy -- Art, lagnuage, society -- Existentialism, old and new.