The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
$27.85
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
16 February 2026
Summary
The Weight of Being: An Existentialist Reader
A powerful new anthology that redefines our understanding of existentialism and argues for its contemporary relevance.
‘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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241645413 |
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| 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: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 35mm |
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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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