The Penguin Book Of Existentialist Philosophy

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 through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This powerful new anthology gathers the key texts of existentialism and some of their major intellectual influences, including works previously neglected in overviews and anthologies of the movement. Incorporating the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir 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.