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Preface | |
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Existentialist Views on the Human Condition | |
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Notes from Underground" | |
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Introduction: The Sickness of Too Much Consciousness | |
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Dostoyevsky's "Notes from Underground: Part I" (Excerpts) | |
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Basic Existentialist Concepts | |
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Subjectivity | |
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Individuality | |
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Questions for Discussion | |
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Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea | |
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Introduction: Lived Experience | |
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Sartre's Nausea (Excerpts) | |
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Basic Existentialist Concepts | |
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Contingency | |
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For-itself | |
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In-itself | |
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Questions for Discussion | |
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Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies | |
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Introduction: Existence Precedes Essence | |
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Sartre's The Flies (Excerpts) | |
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Basic Existentialist Concepts | |
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Freedom | |
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Responsibility | |
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Project | |
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Anguish | |
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Questions for Discussion | |
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Albert Camus' The Stranger | |
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Introduction: Existential Estrangement | |
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Camus' The Stranger (Excerpts) | |
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Basic Existentialist Concepts | |
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Alienation | |
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Authenticity | |
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Questions for Discussion | |
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Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" | |
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Introduction: The Absurd Hero | |
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Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" (Excerpt) | |
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Basic Existentialist Concepts | |
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Absurdity | |
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Questions for Discussion | |
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Simone de Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death | |
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Introduction: Autobiographical Consciousness | |
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Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death (Excerpts) | |
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Basic Existentialist Concepts | |
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Finitude | |
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Lived Body | |
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Questions for Discussion | |
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Existentialist Views on Relations with Others | |
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Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit | |
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Introduction: Hell Is Other People | |
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Sartre's No Exit (Excerpts) | |
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Basic Existentialist Concepts | |
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Being-with-Others | |
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The Look | |
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Bad Faith | |
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Questions for Discussion | |
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Simone de Beauvoir's "The Woman Destroyed" | |
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Introduction: Critique of Women's Dependency | |
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Beauvoir's "The Woman Destroyed" (Excerpts) | |
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Basic Existentialist Concepts | |
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Woman as Other | |
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Questions for Discussion | |
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Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground" | |
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Introduction: Black Activism and Existentialism | |
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Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground" | |
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Basic Existentialist Concepts | |
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Insider-Outsider | |
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Questions for Discussion | |
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Existentialist Views on Religion | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra | |
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Introduction: Critique of Morality | |
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Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Excerpts) | |
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Basic Existentialist Concepts | |
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The Herd | |
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The Superman | |
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Will to Power | |
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Transvaluation of Values | |
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Questions for Discussion | |
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Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling | |
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Introduction: Critique of Organized Religion | |
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Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling (Excerpts) | |
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Basic Existentialist Concepts | |
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Despair | |
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Leap of Faith | |
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Teleological Suspension of the Ethical | |
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Questions for Discussion | |
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor" | |
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Introduction: Religious Doubt and Debate | |
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Dostoyevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor" (Excerpts) | |
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Basic Existentialist Concepts | |
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Burden of Freedom | |
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Questions for Discussion | |
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Franz Kafka's "Before the Law" | |
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Introduction: Inscrutability of God's Law | |
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Kafka's "Before the Law" | |
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Basic Existentialist Concepts | |
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Insecurity | |
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Questions for Discussion | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |