Rethinking Existentialism

penguinrandomhouse.comThe Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy: 9780241645413 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksA powerful new anthology that redefines ourunderstanding of existentialism and argues for itscontemporary relevance A Penguin Classic In the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of intellectua...

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22 Sept

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17 Aug

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14 Sept

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8 Sept

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7 Sept

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3 Sept

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2 Sept

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#philsky #booksky ✨✨ The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy is now published in North America! ✨✨ here are some of the things people have said about it ...

'This well-curated collection offers a clear pathway from existentialism’s origins to the full range of its philosophical implications. An ideal introduction to the existentialist tradition.' –– Professor Henry Somers-Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London

'This excellent anthology is an invaluable resource for anyone teaching or studying existentialism at university level.' –– Dr Juliana de Albuquerque, University College Cork

#philsky #booksky ✨✨ The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy is now published in North America! ✨✨ here are some of the things people have said about it ...

'this expertly curated volume promises to improve how we understand existentialism. This is the most thoughtfully organized collection of existential texts currently available.' –– Professor Matthew C. Eshleman, University of North Carolina Wilmington

'Jonathan Webber has done an excellent job of introducing the existentialist writers in a way that points to their relevance to contemporary issues and dilemmas. I was happy to discover the inclusion of Freud among the inspirations.' –– Dr Betty Cannon, founder of Applied Existential Psychotherapy

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'These are precisely the extracts to which anyone curious about existentialism should turn first — and which few who have encountered these ideas are able to forget.' –– Dr Jessie Stanier, University of the West of England

'At a time when existentialist thought is overdiluted to include old and new fads, this anthology re-captures existentialism's core values and actively adapts them to the challenges of the present.' –– Dr Manu Bazzano, author and existential psychotherapist

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'Existentialism is a vital philosophy that still has the potential to change the world for the better. This essential collection gives access to foundational texts that will inspire new ways of thinking.' –– Dr David Sorfa, University of Edinburgh

'The existentialists are some of philosophy's best loved and most read figures. With expertly chosen selections this new anthology does a perfect job curating their thought for a new generation of readers. An indispensable resource.' –– Dr Jacob McNulty, Yale University

#philsky #booksky ✨✨ The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy is now published in North America! ✨✨ here are some of the things people have said about it ...

'for a general reader it’s wonderful to have this range of existentialist writings in a single affordable volume' – Nigel Warburton (@nigelwarburton.bsky.social), author of A Little History of Philosophy (among many other things); at Five Books (@fivebooks.com)

'An excellent selection of materials to introduce the reader to existentialism, with Jonathan Webber's introductions providing a fine guide to this important body of thought.' –– Professor Sonia Kruks, Oberlin College

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'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety' - Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Café

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7 June

UK Sartre Society 2026: Keynote Address titles and full information 1–2 July, Maison Française d'Oxford. Keynote Addresses from Jane Hiddleston, Marguerite La Caze, & Mark Wrathall - plus 28 selected papers. www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/06/07/u...

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25 May

Keynote Addresses for this year's conference: Negritude and Ecology in Sartre, Fanon, and Césaire – Jane Hiddleston (Oxford) Will We Make It? Beauvoir and Jeunes Mères – Marguerite La Caze (Queensland) Ontological Pluralism in Sartre and Heidegger – Mark Wrathall (Oxford) 1–2 July in Oxford ...

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25 May

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plus 28 selected papers! Hosted by Maison Française d'Oxford in their beautiful building (@mfoxford.bsky.social) Full details: bit.ly/UKSS2026

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23 May

I still have a book of yours on Camus which I hope you will come and collect.

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2 May

My interview with the Guardian on the publication of my first book for a wider audience is in the books section today. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... ‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think?

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4 Apr

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2 Apr

Parution aujourd'hui : Écrits et paroles féministes de Simone de Beauvoir

9 Jan

“If truth be told, one is not born, but becomes, a genius; and the feminine condition has, until now, rendered this becoming impossible.” - Happy 118th birthday, Simone de Beauvoir!

25 Dec 2025

Joyeaux Noël !

11 Dec 2025

11 December 1945: Beauvoir gave a lecture titled ‘Roman et métaphysique’ at Club Maintenant in Paris. Beauvoir argued that novels can provide richer and more nuanced metaphysical visions of human reality than is possible using the skeletal abstractions of philosophical prose.

11 Dec 2025

Beauvoir’s lecture was at the same venue as Sartre’s famously chaotic event six weeks earlier, but seems to have been rather calmer. A written version was later published in Les Temps Modernes issue 7 (April 1946).

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11 Dec 2025

It is in The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy under the title ‘Literature and Metaphysics’.

7 Dec 2025

7 December 1945: Beauvoir’s play Les Bouches Inutiles, which had been first performed on 29 October, is published. An English translation is available as The Useless Mouths.

2 Dec 2025

2 December 1945: Sartre publishes the second novel in his series Les Chemins de la Liberté –– Le Sursis is set during ‘the phoney war’ of September 1939 to March 1940, after the war was declared but before the fighting had begun. An English translation is available from Penguin as The Reprieve.

1 Dec 2025

1 December 1945: Les Temps Modernes issue 3 is published. Beauvoir’s ‘L’existentialisme et la sagesse des nations’ – by far the best short introduction to existentialism ever published – is the lead article. Sartre’s highly influential ‘Portrait de l’antisémite’ is in the same issue.

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1 Dec 2025

Translations of both articles — as ‘Existentialism and Popular Wisdom’ and ‘Portrait of the Anti-Semite’ — are at the centre of The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy.

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28 Nov 2025

#philsky 30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy ::

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15 Nov 2025

15 November 1945: An interview with Camus appears on the front page of Les Nouvelle’s Littéraires headlined: ‘NON, je ne suis pas existentialiste’, nous dit ALBERT CAMUS

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15 Nov 2025

(Newspaper image from gallica.bnf.fr) 80 years later the full article becomes available in English for the first time in The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy.

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Jonathan Webber

13 Nov 2025

✨✨ The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by me is published today in the UK! (Australia and North America publication is next February.) ✨✨