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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A full draft of chapter 6 is now available to download. It argues for a new interpretation of Sartre's play Huis Clos (aka No Exit or, better, In Camera). More specifically, it argues that the […]
A full draft of chapter 5 is now available to download. It argues that existentialism is a development of Freudian psychoanalysis, designed to preserve Freud's insights into behaviour by providing […]
A full draft of chapter 4 is now available to download. It argues that Beauvoir's 1943 novel She Came To Stay presents her distinctive form of existentialism through a critique […]
A full draft of chapter 3 is now available to download. It argues that Merleau-Ponty's critique of Sartre's theory of freedom fails. Merleau-Ponty has succeeded in showing that one of […]
wikimedia image of Albert Camus in 1957 A full draft of chapter 2 of the book is now available to download. It argues for a new interpretation of The Outsider, […]