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Jonathan Webber

Jonathan Webber

Professor of Philosophy, Cardiff University

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Interview on Dublin City FM

Posted on 28 November 2025 by Jonathan Webber

30-minute interview with Jonathan Webber about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy –– https://www.mixcloud.com/1032DublinCityFM/bookbound-20th-november-2025/

Book launch! The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy

Posted on 26 October 2025 by Jonathan Webber

The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy –– essentially, Rethinking Existentialism in anthology form –– will be launched on 12 November 2025. This will be at Oat & Bean café, 26 […]

The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy

Posted on 21 July 2025 by Jonathan Webber

It took a while, but now at long last the next major phase of the Rethinking Existentialism project has almost arrived! The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy is due to […]

Symposium on Rethinking Existentialism now published

Posted on 6 January 2025 by Jonathan Webber

A symposium on Rethinking Existentialism has been published in Sartre Studies International volume 30, number 1 (2024). It comprises responses by Matthew C. Eshleman on Sartre, Kate Kirkpatrick on Beauvoir, […]

UK Sartre Society conference 2023

Posted on 18 May 2023 by Jonathan Webber

Exciting news! Rethinking Existentialism is the topic of a book symposium at this year's UK Sartre Society conference. Critical responses to the book will be presented by Matthew Eshleman (UNC Wilmington), […]

Interview on the Microphilosophy podcast

Posted on 8 March 2022 by Jonathan Webber

There hasn't been much Rethinking Existentialism news to report since the arrival of Covid-19. But now there is a new podcast! Julian Baggini interviews Kate Kirkpatrick and Jonathan Webber about […]

Climbing trees, stereotypes, and a weekend course

Posted on 2 June 2019 by Jonathan Webber

Two online articles have been published in the past few months.Climbing Trees and Raising Children with Simone de Beauvoir is a short article at the New Statesman website that argues […]

Sedimentation article at Aeon

Posted on 31 December 2018 by Jonathan Webber

A new Rethinking Existentialism online article is now available at Aeon magazine. Sedimentation: the existentialist challenge to stereotypes briefly outlines the concept of sedimentation in the philosophies of Simone de […]

Oxford event and new online article

Posted on 10 November 2018 by Jonathan Webber

The next event is at Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford at 11am on Saturday 1st December. This is an interview by Nigel Warburton in the best room of the best bookshop in […]

Book Launch in Cardiff and Publication in North America

Posted on 24 September 2018 by Jonathan Webber

Rethinking Existentialism is published in North America this week. The best way to buy it is probably through A Libris. But I don't know anything about book buying in North America, so […]