A book of discovery and beauty, disclosing the common voice of three rebellious modern thinkers who shared and uncommon vision of human existence and who became the forerunners of the somatic viewpoint.More than an elegant introduction to the philosophies of Kierkegaard, Nietzche, and Camus: The real enjoyment is in following Hanna's deeper explorations into the roots of these philosophies where an exalted vision of human possibility and freedom lies embedded. Three masterful portraits of Kierkegaard, the Christian, Nietzsche, the anti-Christian, and Camus, the agnostic--philosophers who, despite their differences, share a common vision of human existence. With high style and scholarship, Thomas Hanna shows that the "lyrical existentialists" invite us to a view of the world and of human existence which leads directly to a passionate life of freedom, self-sufficiency and "ironic consciousness."