The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy, 9780241645413
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Urgent questions of existence: rediscover classic thinkers, redefine existentialism today.
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy

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    400 pages

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    16 February 2026

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Summary

The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy: A New Anthology

‘We are thrown into the world at every moment, and committed within it’

In the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of intellectuals gathered to discuss urgent questions of existence, commitment, racism, colonialism and feminism. Their ideas would continue to shape debates throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This major new anthology gathers the key texts of existentialism, and their major i…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241645413
ISBN-10:0241645417
Author:Jonathan Webber
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:16 February 2026
Weight:294g
Dimensions:197mm x 128mm x 23mm
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Critics Review

A superb selection of texts, both thorough and adventurous. I can’t imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety – Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist CaféWebber is an expert on French Existentialism… it’s wonderful to have this range of existentialist writings in a single affordable volume – Nigel Warburton * The Best Philosophy Books of 2025, Five Books *

About The Author

Jonathan Webber

Jonathan Webber is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University. He is the author of Rethinking Existentialism (Oxford University Press, 2018) and The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre (Routledge, 2009), editor of Reading Sartre- on Phenomenology and Existentialism (Routledge, 2011), and translator of Sartre’s book The Imaginary (Routledge, 2004). He has written on existentialism for public audiences at Aeon, New Statesman, and Times Literary Supplement. He is a trustee of the Mind Association and President of the UK Sartre Society.

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