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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy

21 July 2025

It took a while, but now at long last the next major phase of the Rethinking Existentialism
project has almost arrived!

Front cover of The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy, featuring an abstract painting in mostly yellows, black, and white.

The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy is due to be published on 13 November 2025.

You can already order it from all good bookshops (and some other ones).

It is designed to be used as a course text.  Here are the Contents pages ––

What Existentialism Is and Why It Matters How To Read This Book 1. INSPIRATIONS Crop Rotation Søren Kierkegaard The Present Age Søren Kierkegaard The Joyous Science Friedrich Nietzsche A Short Account of Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud Dasein and Anxiety Martin Heidegger 2. BEING AND NOTHINGNESS Anguish, Freedom, and Values Jean-Paul Sartre Conducts of Bad Faith Jean-Paul Sartre The Look Jean-Paul Sartre Existential Psychoanalysis Jean-Paul Sartre 3. THE EXISTENTIALIST OFFENSIVE The End of the War Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism and Popular Wisdom Simone de Beauvoir Portrait of the Anti- Semite Jean-Paul Sartre Literature and Metaphysics Simone de Beauvoir

4. THE SECOND SEX Femininity: The Trap Simone de Beauvoir Myths Simone de Beauvoir Woman’s Situation and Character Simone de Beauvoir Conclusion Simone de Beauvoir 5. COLONIALISM AND RACIALIZATION The Lived Experience of the Black Man Frantz Fanon The Black Man and Psychopathology Frantz Fanon From One China to Another Jean- Paul Sartre AFTERWORD ‘No, I’m not an existentialist’, Albert Camus Tells Us Jeanine Delpech

It is published, as its name suggests, by Penguin Books — in the black-spine Classics series.