{"id":786,"date":"2025-07-21T20:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/?p=786"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:03:27","slug":"the-penguin-book-of-existentialist-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/the-penguin-book-of-existentialist-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took a while, but now at long last the next major phase of the Rethinking Existentialism<br \/>\nproject has almost arrived!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/456932\/the-penguin-book-of-existentialist-philosophy\/9780241645413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-787\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PBEP-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Front cover of The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy, featuring an abstract painting in mostly yellows, black, and white.\" width=\"977\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PBEP-cover.jpg 977w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PBEP-cover-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PBEP-cover-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PBEP-cover-768x1179.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PBEP-cover-624x958.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 977px) 100vw, 977px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy<\/em> is due to be published on 13 November 2025.<\/p>\n<p>You can already order it from all good bookshops (and some other ones).<\/p>\n<p>It is designed to be used as a course text. \u00a0Here are the Contents pages \u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/456932\/the-penguin-book-of-existentialist-philosophy\/9780241645413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-788 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PenguinBookOfExistentialism-Contents1-e1753131521764.jpg\" alt=\"What Existentialism Is and Why It Matters How To Read This Book 1. INSPIRATIONS Crop Rotation S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard The Present Age S\u00f8ren 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\" width=\"993\" height=\"1318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PenguinBookOfExistentialism-Contents1-e1753131521764.jpg 993w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PenguinBookOfExistentialism-Contents1-e1753131521764-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PenguinBookOfExistentialism-Contents1-e1753131521764-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PenguinBookOfExistentialism-Contents1-e1753131521764-768x1019.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PenguinBookOfExistentialism-Contents1-e1753131521764-624x828.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/456932\/the-penguin-book-of-existentialist-philosophy\/9780241645413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-789\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PenguinBookOfExistentialism-Contents2.jpg\" alt=\"4. THE SECOND SEX Femininity: The Trap Simone de Beauvoir Myths Simone de Beauvoir Woman\u2019s 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 \u2018No, I\u2019m not an existentialist\u2019, Albert Camus Tells Us Jeanine Delpech \" width=\"1000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PenguinBookOfExistentialism-Contents2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PenguinBookOfExistentialism-Contents2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PenguinBookOfExistentialism-Contents2-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PenguinBookOfExistentialism-Contents2-768x1022.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2025\/07\/PenguinBookOfExistentialism-Contents2-624x831.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is published, as its name suggests, by Penguin Books &#8212; in the black-spine Classics series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It took a while, but now at long last the next major phase of the Rethinking Existentialism project has almost arrived! 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