by Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre's landmark lecture argues existence precedes essence - we are condemned to be free, with no fixed human nature to fall back on. A concise entry point to existentialism.
In this collection, Existentialism Is a Humanism references 1 other book and is cited by 4 other books.
It draws on Beyond Good and Evil.
It’s picked up by At the Existentialist Cafe, Between the World and Me and The Ethics of Ambiguity and 1 others.
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Sartre engages with Nietzsche's God is dead.
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Bakewell discusses Sartre's Existentialism Is a Humanism.
Resonates with Sartre's Existentialism Is a Humanism in Coates's atheistic insistence on confronting meaninglessness without the consolation of divine justice
Beauvoir's book responds directly to Sartre's Existentialism Is a Humanism and Being and Nothingness, constructing the ethics that Sartre's ontology implied but had not yet articulated
The Rebel's publication provoked the famous break with Sartre; Camus argues explicitly against the existentialist-Marxist synthesis Sartre was developing
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The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
3 shared citations
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
3 shared citations
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain de Botton
1 shared citation
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
1 shared citation
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
1 shared citation
At the Existentialist Cafe
Sarah Bakewell
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