The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy - by Jonathan Webber (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A powerful new anthology that redefines ourunderstanding of existentialism and argues for itscontemporary relevance

A Penguin Classic

In the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of intellectuals gathered to discuss urgent questions of existence, commitment, racism, colonialism and feminism. Their ideas would continue to shape debates throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This major new anthology gathers the key texts of existentialism, and those of the movement's nineteenth-century intellectual precursors, along with other works previously neglected in overviews and anthologies of the movement. Incorporating the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon, alongside selections from Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Martin Heidegger, it significantly expands and redefines our understanding of what existentialism means, and why it matters.

About the Author

Jonathan Webber is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University. He is theauthor of Rethinking Existentialism (2018) and The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre (2009), editor of Reading Sartre: on Phenomenology and Existentialism (2011), and translator of Sartre's book The Imaginary (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.