Curated category
Existentialist books
- The Ethics of AmbiguityThe Ethics of Ambiguity begins with a challenge Simone de Beauvoir set for herself. In 1945, during a lecture, she declared it impossible to build a workable…
- Being and NothingnessBeing and Nothingness landed in Paris bookshops in 1943, while Jean-Paul Sartre's city was still under German occupation.
- The Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers Karamazov is the sixteenth and final novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and he died less than four months after it finished publication in November…
- Phenomenology of PerceptionMaurice Merleau-Ponty published Phenomenology of Perception in 1945 to challenge the idea that pure sensation forms the basis of human experience.
- Being and TimeBeing and Time, published in 1927 by German philosopher Martin Heidegger, opened with a question that Western philosophy had supposedly forgotten: what does…
- The Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus began writing The Myth of Sisyphus in 1940. This was the year millions of refugees fled from advancing German armies during the Fall of France.
- The Second SexThe Second Sex opens with a question that sounds almost too simple to ask. "What is woman?" Simone de Beauvoir, the French existentialist philosopher, posed…
- The Rebel (book)Albert Camus published The Rebel in 1951 as a direct sequel to his earlier work The Myth of Sisyphus. This essay explores how rebellion and revolution…
- I and ThouI and Thou, published in 1923 under its original German title Ich und Du, arrived at a moment when Martin Buber had a precise diagnosis for a sickness he saw…
- Either/Or (Kierkegaard book)Either/Or arrived in Copenhagen bookshops in February 1843 as two volumes attributed not to any living person but to a fictional editor named Victor Eremita…
- Nausea (novel)Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre's first novel, was published in 1938 under a title Sartre had not originally chosen. He had called it Melancholia, a name drawn from…