Good books on Existentialism

[eva01]

I was just wondering if anyone here knew of any good books on existentialism.

I have the book entitled "Basic Writings of Existentialism"

Just wondering if anyone else was a fan of existentialism. Looking to go to borders tonight after spanish class is over to pick up a book or two.

 

[telecomm]

Hmmm... I'm not sure what's in the Basic Writings of Existentialism, but the actual books that would probably be considered the basics are:

Sartre's Nausea
Camus's The Stranger (sometimes translated as The Outsider)
some Nietzsche, maybe Thus Spoke Zarathustra, or Beyond Good and Evil
Dostoevsky, I'd have a look at Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Notes from the Underground
and maybe a bit of Kafka.

 

[xsedrinam]

I was just wondering if anyone here knew of any good books on existentialism.

I have the book entitled "Basic Writings of Existentialism"

Just wondering if anyone else was a fan of existentialism. Looking to go to borders tonight after spanish class is over to pick up a book or two.

Basic Writings of Existentialism by Gordon Marino is good. Some others I could recommend would be:

Worlds of Existentialism: A Critical Reader
by Maurice Friedman (Editor), Delmar Publishers (this is a textbook)

Courage to Be
Paul Tillich, Peter J. Gomes

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien, Justin O'Brien

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
William E. Barrett

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
Walter Kaufman, Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Walter Arnold Kaufmann

 

[telecomm]

Oh, and for a theistic variation, try Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.

 

[xsedrinam]

Oh, and for a theistic variation, try Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.

Beat me to it. I was on my way back to mention Kierkegaard.

 

[telecomm]

Beat me to it. I was on my way back to mention Keirkegaard.

Gotta be quick around here, there's no time to ponder the nothingness.

 

[mouchoir]

Definitely Albert Camus' L'Etranger/The Stranger/The Outsider.

Brilliant novel and taught me more than reading one of his essays.

 

[Avishua]

some new stuff

http://www.scribd.com/documents#all?sort=date&sort_direction=ascending

the poetry book called Euphonious Might, you may enjoy?

 

[twietee]

Definitely Albert Camus' L'Etranger/The Stranger/The Outsider.

Brilliant novel and taught me more than reading one of his essays.

One should mention Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, too. L'Être et le néant is his magnum opus.
But Les Mots by Sartre and for example Les Belles Images or other novels by Beauvoir can give a good idea what's expecting you.




edit: and thank's to xsedrinam, very informative list.