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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 […]

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 […]

Why Inez Is Not In Hell – draft available

Posted on 17 December 2015 by Jonathan Webber

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 […]

Psychoanalysis and the Existentialist Mind – draft available

Posted on 12 October 2015 by Jonathan Webber

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 […]

Why Xavière Is A Threat To Françoise – draft now available

Posted on 24 August 2015 by Jonathan Webber

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 […]

Freedom and the Origins of Reasons – draft now available

Posted on 11 August 2015 by Jonathan Webber

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 […]

Camus chapter draft now available

Posted on 26 June 2015 by Jonathan Webber

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, […]