The Pursuit of Existentialism explores how existentialism has survived and how its key themes and concerns remain integr......more

One of the most controversial philosophers of all time, Friedrich Nietzsche was an intellectual prodigy who dared to cha......more

This book combines Western history of death with sociology and philosophy to explore our approach to death. It examines ......more

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Heidegger provides a lively and accessible introduction to one of the most influential and intellectually demanding phil......more

Heidegger provides a lively and accessible introduction to one of the most influential and intellectually demanding phil......more

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche will publish in its entirety, for the first time, an English translation of th......more

This book presents a full decade of Sartre’s work, from the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960, t......more

A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William James William James--psychologist, philosopher, and spi......more

The first in a two-part set, this book takes a deep dive into the history and theory of existential psychology. Beginnin......more

The first in a two-part set, this book takes a deep dive into the history and theory of existential psychology. Beginnin......more

The second in a two-part set, this volume offers a detailed examination of the application of existential psychology. Th......more

First Published in 1985, the aim of this book is to define an aspect of Orwell’s literary identity which underlies and i......more

In this highly engaging book, Costantino Esposito argues that nihilism is not merely the loss of the classic values of t......more

Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender takes Heidegger to task on gender by assessing his views on women as thinkers and explorin......more

The book examines philosophical and sociological approaches within critical theory and more widely from the vantage poin......more

An ambitious venture into Nietzsche’s envisioned philosophy for the future. Nietzsche advocated for a post-theistic "phi......more

"The Greeks never said that the limit could not he overstepped. They said it existed and that whoever dared to exceed it......more

The life and politics of Martin Heidegger raise a serious question: How was one of the most important philosophers of th......more

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The Freudian Exodus redefines the traumatic experience that Freud argued was the origin of Judaic monotheism, the murder......more

A century ago the dominant philosophical outlook was not some form of materialism or naturalism, but idealism. However, ......more

"Inspired by the philosopher Graham Parkes, this collection provides a distinctive study of aesthetics and the climate c......more

Volume one of S ren Kierkegaard’s Either/Or explores the crisis of the modern secular void--with its attendant doubt, en......more

’Hiding in Plain Sight is like any of my favourite books: full of mystery and provocation...’ Andrew McLuhan, Director o......more

This book will benefit readers by revealing how urban existence is a multifaceted affair that, once examined, will forev......more

This book will benefit readers by revealing how urban existence is a multifaceted affair that, once examined, will forev......more

The Beatitudes bring us face-to-face with ourselves and to the heart and mind of Jesus. As the beginning of Jesus’s famo......more

This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wall......more

The life and politics of Martin Heidegger raise a serious question: How was one of the most important philosophers of th......more

Predicting our future as individuals is central to the role of much emerging technology, from hiring algorithms that pre......more

Predicting our future as individuals is central to the role of much emerging technology, from hiring algorithms that pre......more

This book assesses the existentially relevant consequences of physicalism. It argues that accepting physicalism is the h......more

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Jeffrey Bell offers a novel approach to thinking about a number of longstanding problems in metaphysics, issues that hav......more

Jeffrey Bell argues that a motivating problematic for existentialist writers is the attempt to think through the implica......more

The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is a field-defining collection. The editor and contributors are not only......more

This book looks to existential thinkers for reasons to hope immortal life could be worth living. It injects new argument......more

Critical Theory: The Basics brings clarity to a topic that is confusingly bandied about with various meanings today in p......more

It has been now two hundred thirty-one years since Edmund Burke wrote of the materialistic revolutionaries in France: "T......more

The meaning of life is something that has puzzled humanity for centuries and continues to inspire contemplation and disc......more

It has been now two hundred thirty-one years since Edmund Burke wrote of the materialistic revolutionaries in France: "T......more

This volume presents a selection of aesthetic and art theoretical writings by the internationally renowned philosopher A......more

’Hell is other people!’ So said the great French existentialist philosopher, novelist and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre. T......more

Bringing together major scholars, Between Life and Thought explores the burgeoning subfield of existential anthropology ......more

This is the first book-length work to focus on the philosophical and anthropological contribution of Mabogo More, a prom......more

One of our most influential political theorists offers a boundary-breaking--and liberating--perspective on the meaning o......more

Originally published in Norwegian in 1941, this is the magnum opus of one of Norway’s most celebrated philosophers, now ......more

Articulating a creolizing theory of freedom and liberation, this book emphasizes a dynamic account of existence by appea......more

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Loyalty is a highly contested virtue. One the one hand, some have wondered whether it is really a virtue at all. On the ......more

The "greatest psychologist of the spirit since St. Augustine" (Gregory R. Beabout), Soren Kierkegaard is renowned for su......more

This book provides a comparative study of the accounts of the relationship between essence and existence, which are prov......more

We tend to understand vulnerability in one of two ways: (1) the measure of everything that happens to us, or (2) that it......more

This book reveals how the critique of the domination of capitalism inaugurated by the Frankfurt School becomes plurivers......more

Bringing together leading international and interdisciplinary scholars, this ground-breaking volume examines the theory ......more

This fully revised and updated 2nd edition provides a comprehensive reference guide to existentialism, featuring key cha......more

A girl goes missing to gain enlightenment. ....more

This volume engages with the work of Heidegger to argue that the environmental crisis stems from the symbolic codificati......more

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"Translated from Friedrich Nietzsche, Sèamtliche Werke: kritische Studienausgabe, ed. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinar......more

This book recasts Sartrean existentialism through Caribbean philosophies and the broader philosophies of the Global Sout......more

The Environmental Gaze: Reading Sartre through Guido van Helten’s No Exit Murals offers an environmental reading of Sart......more

In this brilliant and revolutionary collection of fourteen major essays that draw from more than twenty-five years of pa......more

This book explores the relevance of Sartre’s work in various areas of contemporary philosophy, including the imagination......more

How did Nietzsche and Sartre come to represent alternative modes of philosophy as antithetical thinkers? What exactly is......more

Heideggerian Existential Therapy focuses on Martin Heidegger’s philosophy in order to provide both a wider accessibility......more

This trans-disciplinary, socio-spatial study analyzes the history of decolonial existentialist and phenomenological theo......more

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is one of the most influential -- and controversial -- philosophers of the twentieth centur......more

Marcos Antonio Norris implements Giorgio Agamben’s notion of ’secularized theism’ to resolve a critical disagreement amo......more

This insightful book is the first edited book volume in the literature to concern itself, primarily, with the question o......more

Drawing on the thought of Heidegger, this book puts forward a new conception of attention as human presence, showing how......more

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A philosophical analysis of the pessimistic and nihilistic conditions of the existential possibilities for blackness and......more