Events

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Rethinking Existentialism in Psychotherapy: a conference

Posted on 29 November 2015 by Jonathan Webber

Rethinking Existentialism in Psychotherapy Wednesday 13th January 2016 10.00 – 16.30 Montague Room, Senate House Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Each session will include presentations followed by general discussion. 10.00 […]

The Future of Existentialism: a workshop

Posted on 21 October 2015 by Jonathan Webber

The Future of Existentialism Call For Papers Submissions are invited for a one-day workshop on existentialism for people considering doing postgraduate research on the theoretical, biographical, or literary works of […]

Simone de Beauvoir workshop: 25 November 2015

Posted on 6 October 2015 by Jonathan Webber

One-day workshop on the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir. Aberdare Hall, Cardiff University. 9.30 – 6.00. Update: There are no more places available at this workshop. Talks: Beauvoir’s Methods of […]