 | Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (Meridian)
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.50 This 50+ year-old book (revised in 1975) remains the best introduction to Existentialist thought.
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 | Being And Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $6.49 Sartre's first magnum opus. While some chapters will bewilder readers not versed in phenomenology (Husserl, early Heidegger, etc.), other sections are wonderfully straightforward.
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 | Sartre: A Life by Ronald Hayman
Buy used from: $2.41 A good, sympathetic, balanced biography of the most important French philosopher of the 20th century.
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 | The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Simone De Beauvoir
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $12.49 A book more important today than ever before. Contemporary Feminism needs to rediscover its own Existentialist roots in order to re-orient itself as a powerfully liberationist radical philosophy.
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 | The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays by Albert Camus
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $4.00 Camus' concept of the Absurd is a necessary complement to Sartrean existentialism. (Camus would surely have disagreed with this statement.)
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 | Basic Writings: from Being and Time (1927) to The Task of Thinking (1964) by Martin Heidegger
Buy new: $16.15 / Used from: $5.02 A collection of Heidegger's most readable writings. Discover where he and Sartre diverge, then choose your own path.
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 | Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.79 Dated, but still interesting for its examination of Existential-like themes in pre-20th century thought.
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 | Nausea (New Directions Paperbook) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy used from: $0.91 One of the great modern French novels. Should be as widely read as Camus' "The Stranger".
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| Saint Genet by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy used from: $6.93 Sartre's spellbinding meditation on Genet's work and persona. I can't believe this book is out of print in the USA. Scandalous!
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 | The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $3.93 The work in which Nietzsche, one of existentialism's most important precursors, meditates upon the death of god and the fall of religion (among much, much else).
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 | The Portable Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $3.44 Check out Zarathustra's critique of religious faith and followers.
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 | The Essential Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $17.80 Kierkegaard's emphases on choice and individuality are extremely valuable, even though he does ultimately make an unjustified leap into belief.
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 | Inwardness and Existence: Subjectivity in/and Hegel, Heidegger, Marx, and Freud by Walter A. Davis
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $15.29 Contemporary American philosopher Walter A. Davis here brings the existentialism of Sartre and Heidegger into conversation with Hegel, Marx and Freud. One result is a new and more rigorous concept of existentialism.
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