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• Coverpage
• Half title page
• Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Part I Introduction
• 1 Existentialism and its legacy
• Part II Existentialism in Historical Perspective
• 2 Existentialism as a philosophical movement
• 3 Existentialism as a cultural movement
• Part III Major Existentialist Philosophers
• 4 Kierkegaard’s single individual and the point of indirect communication
• 5 “What a monster then is man”: Pascal and Kierkegaard on being a contradictory self and what to do about it
• 6 Nietzsche: after the death of God
• 7 Nietzsche: selfhood, creativity, and philosophy
• 8 Heidegger: the existential analytic of Dasein
• 9 The antinomy of being: Heidegger’s critique of humanism
• 10 Sartre’s existentialism and the nature of consciousness
• 11 Political existentialism: the career of Sartre’s political thought
• 12 Simone de Beauvoir’s existentialism: freedom and ambiguity in the human world
• 13 Merleau-Ponty on body, flesh, and visibility
• Part IV The Reach of Existential Philosophy
• 14 Existentialism as literature
• 15 Existentialism and religion
• 16 Racism is a system: how existentialism became dialectical in Fanon and Sartre
• 17 Existential phenomenology, psychiatric illness, and the death of possibilities
• Bibliography
• Index