William Barrett

Barrett, William

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William Christopher Barrett entered the City College of New York when 15 years old. He received his PhD from Columbia University at age 22. In the late 1940s to early 1950s, he was a journalist and associate editor at the Partisan Review and later the literary critic of The Atlantic Monthly magazine. He was a professor of philosophy at New York University from 1950 to 1979. He was well-known for writing philosophical works for nonexperts. Perhaps the best known among these were *Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy* and *The Illusion of Technique*.

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iProperty
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La ilusión de la técnica
Representative edition published 2001
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Administrationªs Proposal for Permanent Normal Trade Relations With China
Representative edition published 2000
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Solution-Based Casework
Representative edition published 1999
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Zen Buddhism
Representative edition published 1996
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Irrational man
Representative edition published 1990
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Death of the soul
Representative edition published 1987
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The truants
Representative edition published 1982
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History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol
Representative edition published 1982
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The Illusion technique
Representative edition published 1978
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The illusion of technique
Representative edition published 1978
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The Lilies of the Field
Representative edition published 1977
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Time of need
Representative edition published 1973
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Time of need: forms of imagination in the twentieth century
Representative edition published 1972
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Philosophy in the twentieth century
Representative edition published 1971
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Best Sellers
Representative edition published 1970
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What is existentialism?
Representative edition published 1964
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Philosophy in the twentieth century
Representative edition published 1962
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The law of the labourers and the labourers question
Representative edition published 1906
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Genealogy of some of the descendants of Thomas Barrett, sen., of Braintree, Mass., 1635
Representative edition published 1888
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非理性的人
Representative edition published 1992
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Philosophy in the twentieth century
Representative edition published 1971
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Divining Rod
Representative edition published 1967
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Aristotle's analysis of movement
Representative edition published 1938
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