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Jonathan Webber

Jonathan Webber

Professor of Philosophy, Cardiff University

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Book released today in the UK

Posted on 9 August 2018 by Jonathan Webber

  Rethinking Existentialism is now available in the UK. It will be available in North America in early October. The book is currently available from Blackwell's bookshop with a huge […]

Underrated Existentialist Classics at Five Books

Posted on 2 June 2018 by Jonathan Webber

Rethinking Existentialism is now at the printing press. It is available to pre-order with at 12% discount and free UK delivery from Blackwell's bookshop. The first online article exploring the book's […]

Book due to be published in July

Posted on 11 February 2018 by Jonathan Webber

Rethinking Existentialism is now in the final editing and design stages at Oxford University Press and scheduled to hit at least some good bookshops in July. All being well, online […]

Psychotherapy talks now on YouTube

Posted on 12 April 2016 by Jonathan Webber

Recordings from last January's conference Rethinking Existentialism in Psychotherapy are now available on the project YouTube channel. There are audio recordings of the talks by Eva Koumpli on psychodrama, Rebecca […]

The Imperative of Authenticity

Posted on 23 January 2016 by Jonathan Webber

A draft of chapter 10 is now available to download. It reconstructs Beauvoir's argument for the moral requirement of authenticity in Pyrrhus and Cineas. The argument begins from a premise that, according […]

From Absurdity to Authenticity

Posted on 18 January 2016 by Jonathan Webber

A full draft of chapter 9 is now available to download. It analyses the eudaimonist arguments for the virtue of authenticity found in Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks and Sartre's Being and Nothingness. It […]

Black Skin, White Masks

Posted on 11 January 2016 by Jonathan Webber

A full draft of chapter 8 is now available to download. It argues that Fanon's first book, Black Skin, White Masks, is a single coherent argument for a form of […]

Sedimentation and the Grounds of Cultural Values

Posted on 7 January 2016 by Jonathan Webber

A full draft of chapter 7 is now available to download. It argues that Sartre's initial form of existentialism precludes any explanation of the widespread adoption of the project of […]

Huis Clos — talk now available on YouTube

Posted on 28 December 2015 by Jonathan Webber

The sixth film of the project, a talk explaining my interpretation of Sartre's play Huis Clos (aka No Exit or In Camera) is now available on the project YouTube playlist.

Five talks now available on YouTube

Posted on 21 December 2015 by Jonathan Webber

The project YouTube playlist now has these five films on it ... 1. What Is Existentialism? 2. Why Camus Is Not An Existentialist 3. Freedom and the Structure of Experience […]