Jonathan Webber is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University. He is the author of Rethinking Existentialism (OUP, 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.>

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**A powerful new anthology that redefines our understanding of existentialism and argues for its contemporary relevance.

'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety'* - Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Café*

'Existentialist thought [...] is an effort to reconcile the objective and the subjective, the absolute and the relative, the timeless and the historical.' Simone de Beauvoir

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 those debates throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

his major new anthology gathers the key texts of existentialism, and their major intellectual influences, 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.

Edited with an Introduction by Jonathan Webber

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**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.

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What Existentialism Is and Why It Matters
How To Read This Book

1. INSPIRATIONS
   Crop Rotation Søren Kierkegaard
   The Present Age Søren Kierkegaard
   The Joyous Science Friedrich Nietzsche
   A Short Account of Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud
   Dasein and Anxiety Martin Heidegger

2. BEING AND NOTHINGNESS
   Anguish, Freedom, and Values Jean-Paul Sartre
   Conducts of Bad Faith Jean-Paul Sartre
   The Look Jean-Paul Sartre
   Existential Psychoanalysis Jean-Paul Sartre

3. THE EXISTENTIALIST OFFENSIVE
   The End of the War Jean-Paul Sartre
   Existentialism and Popular Wisdom Simone de Beauvoir
   Portrait of the Anti-Semite Jean-Paul Sartre
   Literature and Metaphysics Simone de Beauvoir

4. THE SECOND SEX
   Femininity: The Trap Simone de Beauvoir
   Myths Simone de Beauvoir
   Woman’s Situation and Character Simone de Beauvoir
   Conclusion Simone de Beauvoir

5. COLONIALISM AND RACIALIZATION
   The Lived Experience of the Black Man Frantz Fanon
   The Black Man and Psychopathology Frantz Fanon
   From One China to Another *Jean-Paul Sartre

   AFTERWORD
   ‘No, I’m not an existentialist’, Albert Camus Tells Us Jeanine Delpech

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