{"id":16,"date":"2014-02-06T23:23:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T23:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2022-03-08T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T18:16:08","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68\" style=\"margin: 10px;float: right\" title=\"Simone de Beauvoir accepted my friend request!\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2014\/02\/SimoneFriendRequest.jpg\" alt=\"Simone de Beauvoir accepted your Facebook friend request\" width=\"298\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Rethinking Existentialism<\/em>\u00a0was published by Oxford University Press in 2018 in hardback, 2020 in paperback. It is available from all good booksellers (and a bad one).<\/p>\n<p>It presents an original interpretation of existentialism as the ethical theory that human freedom is the foundation of all other values.<\/p>\n<p>The book argues this through detailed analysis of classic literary and philosophical works published by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Frantz Fanon in critical contrast with central works by Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.\u00a0It concludes by sketching some implications of existentialism for current philosophy, psychology, and psychotherapy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67\" style=\"margin: 10px;float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2014\/02\/JonatUKSS2014.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Jonathan Webber at UK Sartre Society 2013\" width=\"298\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For news of events, essays, and papers developing the book&#8217;s themes, sign up for occasional emails, like the Facebook page, follow the Twitter feed, or subscribe to this site&#8217;s Atom feed ::<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/?feed=atom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-120\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2014\/02\/Atom.jpg\" alt=\"link to Atom feed of project news blog\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/baxRWj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-148\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2014\/02\/Email.jpg\" alt=\"link to form for subscribing to project email announcement list\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rethinkingexistentialism\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-105\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2014\/02\/Facebook.jpg\" alt=\"link to project Facebook page\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rethinkexistent\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-92\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2014\/02\/Twitter.jpg\" alt=\"link to project Twitter feed\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The book was written during a period of research leave funded by Cardiff University and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.<\/p>\n<p>The project included workshops, conferences, and a series of YouTube talks on each of the book&#8217;s chapters. More information about these can be found on this website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.ahrc.ac.uk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-154\" style=\"margin: 10px;float: right\" title=\"AHRC logo\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2014\/02\/AHRC-logo-10th-anniversary-298x67.jpg\" alt=\"Logo of Arts and Humanities Research Council and link to their website\" width=\"298\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rethinking Existentialism\u00a0was published by Oxford University Press in 2018 in hardback, 2020 in paperback. It is available from all good booksellers (and a bad one). 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