Indicative Reading List:

Readings will primarily come from the following two anthologies:

1. Basic Writings of Existentialism, edited by Gordon Marino (Modern Library, 2004)

2.Existentialism Basic Writings, Second Edition, Edited by Charles Guignon and Derk Pereboom (Hackett Publishing, 2001).

Indicative readings will include extracts from the following philosophical and literary works:

1. Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
2. Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
3. 3.   Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘Existentialism is a Humanism’
4. 4.   Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
5. Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others
6. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
7. 7.   Albert Camus, The Outsider
8. Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
9. Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
11. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
12. Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
13. Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
14. Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man

Selected Secondary Texts:

1. A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism – edited by H.L. Dreyfus and M.A. Wrathall (Blackwell Publishers)
2. The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism ­– edited by S. Crowell (Cambridge University Press)
3. Iris Murdoch – Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
4. Iris Murdoch – Essays on “Encountering Existentialism” from Existentialists and Mystics.