Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy

Jonathan Webber is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University. He is the author of Rethinking Existentialism (Oxford University Press, 2018) and The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre (Routledge, 2009), editor of Reading Sartre: on Phenomenology and Existentialism (Routledge, 2011), and translator of Sartre's book The Imaginary (Routledge, 2004). He has written on existentialism for public audiences at Aeon, New Statesman, and Times Literary Supplement. He is a trustee of the Mind Association and President of the UK Sartre Society.

• What Existentialism Is and Why It Matters How To Read This Book1. INSPIRATIONSCrop Rotation Søren KierkegaardThe Present Age Søren KierkegaardThe Joyous Science Friedrich NietzscheA Short Account of Psychoanalysis Sigmund FreudDasein and Anxiety Martin Heidegger2. BEING AND NOTHINGNESSAnguish, Freedom, and Values Jean-Paul SartreConducts of Bad Faith Jean-Paul SartreThe Look Jean-Paul SartreExistential Psychoanalysis Jean-Paul Sartre3. THE EXISTENTIALIST OFFENSIVEThe End of the War Jean-Paul SartreExistentialism and Popular Wisdom Simone de BeauvoirPortrait of the Anti-Semite Jean-Paul SartreLiterature and Metaphysics Simone de Beauvoir4. THE SECOND SEXFemininity: The Trap Simone de Beauvoir Myths Simone de Beauvoir Woman’s Situation and Character Simone de Beauvoir Conclusion Simone de Beauvoir 5. COLONIALISM AND RACIALIZATIONThe Lived Experience of the Black Man Frantz FanonThe Black Man and Psychopathology Frantz FanonFrom One China to Another Jean-Paul SartreAFTERWORD‘No, I’m not an existentialist’, Albert Camus Tells Us Jeanine DelpechTexts and Permissions

A superb selection of texts, both thorough and adventurous. I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety