Sartre's Existentialism Is a Humanism › Further Reading

Michael BrenndoerferUpdated March 3, 20251 min read
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- Sartre, Jean-Paul. *Being and Nothingness*. Sartre's magnum opus, a dense but rewarding exploration of consciousness, freedom, and the structures of human existence. - De Beauvoir, Simone. *The Ethics of Ambiguity*. A more systematic attempt to derive an ethics from existentialist premises, written by Sartre's intellectual partner. - Kierkegaard, Søren. *Either/Or*. A foundational text of existentialism, exploring the aesthetic and ethical modes of existence through a literary-philosophical experiment. - Camus, Albert. *The Myth of Sisyphus*. A meditation on absurdity and meaning that complements and challenges Sartre's existentialism. - Flynn, Thomas. *Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction*. An accessible overview of the existentialist movement and its key figures.