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"The existentialist acts rightly for no reason."— G.E. Nordell
"Existentialism is a terrifying doctrine but it's not a hopeless doctrine because it still says that there is a way forward."
— Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
![poster of a statement by existential philosopher Albert Camus [1913-1960] of France](images/pCamus-actofrebellion.jpg "poster of a statement by existential philosopher Albert Camus [1913-1960] of France") |
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Existentialist Philosophers
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Nicola Abbagnano
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Albert Camus [1913-1960] Page
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feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir [1908-86] of France
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 | "America Day by Day" [France 1948, U.K. 1952, USA 1999] by Simone de Beauvoir, new translation by Carol Cosman French feminist philosopher de Beauvoir [1908-86] spent four months in 1947 traveling on a lecture tour across the United States and taking daily notes of her impressions; she traveled by car, train & Greyhound bus, visiting small towns and big cities and tourist traps: Chicago, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas & Reno in Nevada, Los Angeles & Hollywood, New Orleans, New York City, Niagara Falls, San Antonio in Texas, and Vassar College in New York Univ Calif Press 9x6 pb [3/2000] for $25.49 Univ Calif Press 9x6 hardcover [1/99] out of print/many used |
 | "The Bonds of Freedom: Simone de Beauvoir's Existential Ethics" [2001] by Kristana Arp Open Court 9x6 pb [9/2001] for $13.97 Open Court 9x5¾ hardcover [9/2001] for $42.95 |
 | "Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Beauvoirian Perspective" [2012] by Jean-Pierre Boulé & Ursula Tidd Berghahn Books 8x6 hardcover [10/2012] for $70.00 |
psychiatrist Dr. Viktor E. Frankl [1905-97] of Austria
| Viktor Frankl was captured by the Nazis and sent to camps with other Jews and survived for three years. After release in 1945, he wrote the book "… Trotzdem Ja zum Leben Sagen: Ein Psychologe Erlebt das Konzentrationslager", which translates roughly as 'nevertheless saying yes to life'; the English title is "Man's Search For Meaning". He founded Existential Psychoanalysis, called logotherapy, and made a career of that 'Third Viennese School', and received many honors in his lifetime. |
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Viktor Frankl Institut Wien [est. 1992]
Viktor Frankl Zentrum Wien
Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy in Abilene, Texas
"Viktor & I: An Alexander Vesely Film" [video release 2010]
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 |  "Man's Search For Meaning (Revised & Updated)" [1946 classic]
Kindle Edition from Beacon Press [6/2006 edition] for $4.99 Beacon Press mass pb [6/2006] for $6.99 Beacon Press 8½x5½ pb [6/2006] for $9.02 Beacon Press hardcover [2002] out of print/used |
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Karl Jaspers [1883-1969]
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Karl Jaspers Society of Austria
 | "Philosophy of Existence" [1958] by Karl Jaspers, 1971 translation by Richard F. Grabau Univ PA Press 8x5 pb [6/71] for $18.95 |
Søren Kierkegaard [1813-55]
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 | "Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes" [1997] Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8x5 pb [11/2001] for $7.95 Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8½x5¼ hardcover [4/97] for $14.95 |
 | "Kierkegaard's Existential Ethics" [1992] by George J. Stack Ashgate hardcover [1/92] for $61.94 |
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Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900] Page
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Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-80] Page
Books on Existentialism
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"The Existentialists: A Critical Study" [1952] by James Daniel Collins Regnery pb [6/68] out of print/used Greenwood hardcover [6/77] out of print/used |
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"Six Existentialist Thinkers: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger, Sartre" [1952] by H.J. Blackham
Routledge 8½x5½ pb [1/83] for $34.95 Routledge & Kegan Paul hardcover [12/52] out of print/used |
 | "From Shakespeare To Existentialism: Essays On Shakespeare & Goethe; Hegel & Kierkegaard; Nietzsche, Rilke & Freud; Jaspers, Heidegger & Toynbee" [1960] by Walter Kaufmann Princeton Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [6/80] for $25.90 Princeton Univ Press hardcover [6/80] out of print/used |
 | "An Introduction To Existentialism" [1962] by Robert G. Olson Dover Publns 8½x5½ pb [6/62] for $9.95 |
 | "Irrational Man: A Study In Existential Philosophy" [1962] by William Barrett Anchor Books 8x5 pb [7/62] for $10.36 |
 | "Worlds of Existentialism: A Critical Reader" [1964] Edited by Maurice Friedman Delmar 8½x5½ pb [4/91] for $27.30 |
 | "Existentialism: The Philosophy of Despair and The Quest For Hope" [1984] by C. Stephen Evans Probe Books/W Publng 8x5¼ pb [1984] out of print/used Zondervan/Probe pb [1984] out of print/used author's Baylor University faculty page |
 | "Existentialist Philosophy: An Introduction" [1991] by Nathan L. Oaklander Prentice Hall 9¼x6½ 2nd edition hardcover [9/95] for $0.00 |
 | "From Rationalism To Existentialism" [1992] by Robert C. Solomon Rowman & Littlefield 9x6 pb [2/2001] for $27.95 Littlefield Adams hardcover [1/92] out of print/used |
 | "Existentialism and Human Existence: An Account of Five Major Philosophers" Volume 1 [1992] by Thomas R. Koenig
Husserl, Camus, Jaspers, G. Marcel & Heidegger Krieger 9x6¼ hardcover [7/92] for $25.49 |
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"Existentialism and Human Existence: An Account of Five Major Philosophers" Volume 2 [1997] by Thomas R. Koenig
Kierkegaard, Ortega y Gasset, Buber, Berdyaev & Paul Ricoeur Krieger 9x6¼ hardcover [9/97] for $31.49 |
 | "Introducing Camus" [1998] by David Zane Mairowitz & Alain Korkos 8¼x5½ pb [11/2007] for $11.01 8x5½ pb [9/98] out of print/used |
 | "Introducing Existentialism" [2002] by Richard Appignanesi & Oscar Zarate Icon/Totem 8x5½ pb [4/2006] for $11.01 Icon/Totem 8¼x5½ pb [4/2002] out of print/used |
 | "The Existentialists: Critical Essays On Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger & Sartre" [2003] Edited by Charles Guignon
Rowman & Littlefield 8¾x6 pb [12/2003] for $25.95 Rowman & Littlefield 9¼x6 hardcover [12/2003] for $83.00 |
 | "Basic Writings of Existentialism" [2004] Edited by Gordon Marino Modern Library Classics 8x5¼ pb [4/2004] for $12.21 |
 | "Existentialism, Second Edition" [orig 1974, rev 2004] by Robert C. Solomon Oxford Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [9/2004] for $28.75 1st edition: McGraw-Hill mass pb [2/74] for $9.67 |
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"Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction" [2006] by Thomas Flynn Oxford Univ Press mass pb [11/2006] for $9.56 |
 | "Existentialism For Dummies" [2008] by Christopher Panza, PhD & Gregory Gale, MA Kindle Edition from Wiley/For Dummies [3/2009] for $11.99 Wiley/For Dummies 9x7¼ pb [8/2008] for $14.65 |
 | "Why Does The World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story" [2012] by Jim Holt collected essays, which include conversations with physicist David Deutsch, Pittsburgh philosopher Adolf Grünbaum, physicist Andre Linde, Platonist mathematician Roger Penrose, Matthieu Ricard, Oxford philosopher Richard Swinburne, author John Updike, and Nobel laureate physicist Steven Weinberg Kindle Edition from Liveright [7/2012] for $8.98 Liveright 8¼x5½ pb [4/2013] for $13.61 Liveright 9½x6½ hardcover [7/2012] for $18.45 |
 | "The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How To Live Authentically In An Inauthentic Age" [2018] by Gordon Marino recasts the practical takeaways existentialism offers for the XXIst century, giving existential prescriptions for living with integrity, courage, and authenticity in an increasingly chaotic, uncertain, and inauthentic age • publisher's official booksite Kindle Edition from HarperOne/HarperCollins [4/2018] for $12.99 HarperOne 8¼x5½ hardcover [4/2018] for $25.99 |
http://www.amazon.com/Existentialism-Beginners-David-Cogswell/dp/1934389218/
http://www.amazon.com/Existential-America-George-Cotkin/dp/0801882001/
Existentialist Fiction
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 | "Mysteries: A Novel" [1892] by Knut Hamsun [1859-1952] of Norway
The inhabitants of a small Norwegian coastal town are shaken by the arrival of Johan Nagel, an eccentric stranger who proceeds to shock, bewilder, and beguile them with his bizarre behavior, feverish rants, and uncompromising Modernist psychological self-revelations. {An under-lying theme of the book is the question, "Why live?"} • book entry at Wikipedia introduction & translation by Sverre Lyngstad Penguin Classics 7¾x5 pb [1/2001] for $11.25 introduction by Sven Birkerts, translation by Gerry Bothmer FS&G 8x5¼ pb [8/2006] for $10.20 |
 | "Existential Imagination: From de Sade To Sartre" [1963] anthology of existential fiction, edited by Frederick R. Karl & Leo Hamalian stories by Beckett, Brecht, de Sade, Kafka, Malraux, Moravia, Proust, Sartre, and many others Fawcett pb [1/2000] out of print/used Picador/Macmillan 7½x5 pb [12/73] out of print/used Fawcett Premier mass pb [1963] out of print/used |
 | "The Existential Giraffe" [2012] by Eric Kesselman, Illustrated by Erica Missey described as a 'quasi children's book' for both children and adults Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [3/2012] for $5.99 CreateSpace 10x8 pb [1/2012] for $9.75 |
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Existentialism entry at Wikipedia
C.S. Wyatt's Existentialism Primer [est. 1996]
Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore's Existentialist Film Festival
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