ExistentialismEdited by Tanja StaehlerPublished December 14th 2012 by Routledge – 1,528 pagesSeries: Critical Concepts in Philosophy

Volume I: Key Figures and Definitions

Part 1: Definitions, Introductions, Overviews

1. Steve Crowell, ‘Existentialism’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2009), pp. 1–55.

2. William Barrett, ‘The Advent of Existentialism’, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Garden City: Doubleday, 1958), pp. 3–19.3. Mikel Dufrenne, ‘Existentialism and Existententialism’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1965, 26, 1, 51–62.4. Jack Reynolds, ‘Existentialism’, in S. Luft and S. Overgaard, The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology (Abingdon: Routledge, 2012), pp. 485–95.Part 2: The First Existentialists

5. Søren Kierkegaard, ‘The Task of Becoming Subjective’, Concluding Unscientific Postscript(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1941), pp. 115–67.6. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (Fragments 1–8, 124, 125, 341, 342) (New York: Random House, 1974), pp. 73–83, 180–2, 273–5.Part 3: Some Classic Existentialists

7. Hannah Arendt, ‘What is Existential Philosophy?’ and ‘French Existentialism’, Essays in Understanding 1930–1954 (Orlando: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994), pp. 163–93.8. Martin Heidegger, ‘What is Metaphysics?’, Basic Writings (Harper Collins, 1977), pp. 93–110.9. Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘The Look’, Being and Nothingness (New York: Washington Square Press, 1956), pp. 340–58.10. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, ‘Battle Over Existentialism’, Sense and Nonsense [1945] (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964), pp. 71–82.11. Karl Jaspers, ‘The Encompassing’, Reason and Existenz: Five Lectures (London: Routledge, 1956), pp. 51–76.12. Albert Camus, ‘An Absurd Reasoning’, The Myth of Sisyphus (London: Penguin, 2000), pp. 11–35.13. Simone de Beauvoir, ‘Ambiguity and Freedom’, The Ethics of Ambiguity (New York: Citadel Press, 1976), pp. 1–34.Part 4: Some Contemporary Existentialists

14. Emmanuel Levinas, ‘The Relationship with Existence’ and ‘Existence without Existents’,Existence and Existents (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995), pp. 21–8, 57–64.

15. Judith Butler, ‘Scenes of Address’ and ‘Responsibility: The Primacy of the Other’, Giving an Account of Oneself (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), pp. 9–20, 83–101.16. Jean-Luc Nancy, The Experience of Freedom (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993), pp. 1–32.17. Renaud Barbaras, ‘Desire as the Essence of Subjectivity’, Desire and Distance: Introduction to a Phenomenology of Perception (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), pp. 108–122.Volume II: Basic Themes and Concepts

Part 5: Subjectivity

18. David Carr, ‘Transcendental and Empirical Subjectivity: The Self in the Transcendental Tradition’, in D. Welton (ed.), The New Husserl (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003), pp. 181–99.19. Rudolf Bernet, ‘The Other in Myself’, in S. Critchley and P. Dews (eds.), Deconstructive Subjectivities (New York: SUNY Press, 1996), pp. 169–84.20. Jean-Luc Marion, ‘L’Interloqué’, Who Comes After the Subject? (eds. Eduardo Cadava et al.) (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 236–45.21. Michel Foucault, ‘The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Course Summary’, The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Random House, 1970), pp. 491–505.Part 6: Humanism

22. Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘Is Existentialism a Humanism?’, Existentialism is a Humanism (London: Random House, 1997), pp. 23–56.23. Martin Heidegger, ‘Letter on Humanism’, Basic Writings (Harper Collins, 1977), pp. 215–65.24. Charles Taylor, ‘Self-Interpreting Animals’, Human Agency and Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 45–76.25. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Ends of Man’, Margins (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), pp. 111–36.26. Timothy Mooney, ‘On Naturalist and Humanist Motivations in Deconstructive Reading’.

Part 7: Moods and Senses

27. Robert C. Solomon, ‘Emotions in Phenomenology and Existentialism’, in Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (London: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 291–307.28. Martin Heidegger, (a) ‘Selected Texts on Fear, Anxiety, Boredom, and Fundamental Moods’,Being and Time (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996), pp. 126–34, 172–8; (b) The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), pp. 153–67; (c) Contributions to Philosophy: Of the Event (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), pp. 3–5, 9–17.

29. Giorgio Agamben, ‘The Passion of Facticity’, Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), pp. 211–29.30. Georges Bataille, ‘Love’, in F. Botting and S. Wilson (eds.), The Bataille Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), pp. 94–7.31. Edward S. Casey, ‘The World of Nostalgia’, Man and World, 1987, 20, 361–84.32. Hilge Landweer, ‘The Sense of Appropriateness’ (2011).

Part 8: Crisis and History

33. Ortega y Gasset, ‘History as a System’, History as a System and Other Essays (New York: Norton, 1941), pp. 174–207, 216–19, 223–33.34. Edmund Husserl, ‘Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity’ (‘The Vienna Lecture’),The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970), pp. 269–99.35. Marvin Farber, ‘Existence and the Life-World’, Phenomenology and Existence (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), pp. 122–38.36. Jacques Derrida, ‘The "World" of the Enlightenment to Come (Exception, Calculation, Sovereignty)’, Rogues: Two Essays on Reason (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005), pp. 117–59.Volume III: Existentialist Aesthetics and Philosophy of Religion

Part 9: Existentialism and Literature

37. Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘What is Writing?’, What is Literature? (London: Methuen, 1950), pp. 1–25.38. Christina Howells, ‘Sartre and the Commitment of Pure Art’, British Journal of Aesthetics, 1978, 18, 2, 172–82.39. M. M. Bhaktin, ‘Discourse in Dostoevsky’, in F. Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground: With Background and Sources (New York: Norton, 1989), pp. 146–55.40. Maurice Blanchot, ‘Inspiration’, The Space of Literature (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982), pp. 163–87.41. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, ‘What is a Minor Literature?’, Mississippi Review, 1983, 11, 3, 13–33.Part 10: Existentialism and Art

42. Martin Heidegger, ‘Art and Space’, Man and World, 1973, 6, 1, 3–8.43. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, ‘Cézanne’s Doubt’, in G. A. Johnson (ed.), The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1993), pp. 59–75.44. Gilles Deleuze, ‘Painting and Sensation’, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (London: Continuum, 2005), pp. 25–31.45. Wayne Martin, ‘Bubbles and Skulls: The Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness in Dutch Still-Life Painting’, in Wrathall and Dreyfus (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 559–83.

46. Mikel Dufrenne ‘The Imaginary’, In the Presence of the Sensuous (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1987), pp. 39–68.47. Eero Tarasti, ‘Signs as Acts and Events: On Musical Situations’, Signs of Music: A Guide to Musical Semiotics (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2002), pp. 65–87.48. Alexander Kozin, ‘The Appearing Memory: Gilles Deleuze and Andrey Tarkovsky on "Crystal-Image"’, Memory Studies, 2009, 2, 103–16.49. Tanja Staehler, ‘"Everywhere and Nowhere": Exploring Ambiguity with Phenomenology and Dance’, Chiasmi International, 2010, 12, 217–40.Part 11: Existentialism and Religion

50. Gabriel Marcel, ‘Testimony and Existentialism’, Philosophy of Existence (New York: Citadel Press, 1987), pp. 67–76.51. Martin Buber, ‘Dialogue. Section 1: Description’, Between Man and Man (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 1–21.52. Nicolas Berdyaev, ‘Manhood’, The Human and the Divine (Semantron Press, 2009).53. Paul Tillich, ‘Existential Analyses and Religious Symbols’, in W. Herberg (ed.), Four Existentialist Theologians A Reader from the Works of Jacques Maritain, Nicolas Berdyaev, Martin Buber, and Paul Tillich (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1958), pp. 277–91.54. Simone Weil, ‘Human Personality’, Selected Essays, 1934–1943 (London: Oxford University Press, 1962), pp. 9–34.55. Klaus Held, ‘World, Emptiness, Nothingness: A Phenomenological Approach to the Religious Tradition of Japan’, Human Studies, 1997, 20, 153–67.56. Felix O’Murchadha, ‘Religion and Ethics’, in L. Lawlor (ed.), The History of Continental Philosophy, Vol. 4 (‘Responses to Phenomenology, 1930–1960’) (Chesham, Acumen, 2010), pp. 195–216.57. Giorgio Agamben, ‘Angels’, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 2001, 16, 3, 117–23.Volume IV: Horizons of Existentialism

Part 12: Existential Psychology

58. Tran-Duc Thao, ‘The Indicative Gesture’, Investigations into the Origin of Language and Consciousness (Boston: Kluwer Publishing, 1984), pp. 3–29.59. Ludwig Binswanger, ‘The Existential Analysis School of Thought’, in R. May, E. Angel, and H. Ellenberger (eds.), Existence: A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology (New York: Touchstone, 1958), pp. 191–213.60. Rollo May, ‘Contributions of Existential Psychotherapy: Some Implications for Psychotherapeutic Technique’, in R. May, E. Angel, and H. Ellenberger (eds.), Existence: A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology (New York: Touchstone, 1958), pp. 76–91.61. Erwin Straus, ‘Man: A Questioning Being’, Phenomenological Psychology (London: Tavistock, 1966), pp. 166–87.62. Eugene T. Gendlin, ‘Experiential Explication and Truth’, Journal of Existentialism, 1995, 6, 131–46.

63. Fred Dallmayr, ‘Heidegger and Freud’, Political Psychology, 1993, 14, 2, 235–53.Part 13: Existentialism and Feminism

64. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (London: Vintage, 2011), pp. 38–49, 769–82.65. Judith Butler, ‘Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex’, Yale French Studies, 1986, 72, 35–49.66. Iris Marion Young, ‘Lived Body Versus Gender: Reflections on Social Structure and Subjectivity’, Ratio, 2002, XV, 410–28.67. Luce Irigaray, ‘Love Between Us’, in Eduardo Cadava et al. (eds.), Who Comes After the Subject? (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 167–77.68. Alia Al-Saji, ‘Bodies and Sensings: On the Uses of Husserlian Phenomenology for Feminist Theory’, Continental Philosophy Review, 2010, 42, 13–37.69. Alison Stone, ‘Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy’, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2004, 1, 2, 135–53.Part 14: Culture and Politics

70. Thomas Flynn, ‘Political Existentialism: The Career of Sartre’s Political Thought’, in S. Crowell (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Existentialism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 227–51.71. Anne O’Byrne, ‘Symbol, Exchange, and Birth: Towards a Theory of Labour and Relation’,Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2004, 30, 3, 355–73.72. Robert Bernasconi, ‘Can Race Be Thought in Terms of Facticity? A Reconsideration of Sartre’s and Fanon’s Existential Theories of Race’, in S. Nelson and F. Raffoul (eds.),Rethinking Facticity (Albany: SUNY Press, 2008), pp. 195–204.73. John Wild ‘Marxist Humanism and Existential Philosophy’, Continental Philosophy Review, 2011, 44, 329–39.74. Bernhard Waldenfels, ‘Between Cultures’, Phenomenology of the Alien: Basic Concepts(Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2011), pp. 70–84.75. Michael Naas, ‘One Nation … Indivisible: Jacques Derrida on the Autoimmunity of Democracy and the Sovereignty of God’, Research in Phenomenology, 2006, 36, 15–44.