Undergraduate Module Descriptor

PHL3002: Existentialism

This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

  • 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:
  • Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
  • Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
  • 3.   Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘Existentialism is a Humanism’
  • 4.   Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
  • Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others
  • Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
  • 7.   Albert Camus, The Outsider
  • Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
  • Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
  • Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
  • Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
  • Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man
  • Selected Secondary Texts:
  • A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism – edited by H.L. Dreyfus and M.A. Wrathall (Blackwell Publishers)
  • The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism ¬– edited by S. Crowell (Cambridge University Press)
  • Iris Murdoch – Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
  • Iris Murdoch – Essays on “Encountering Existentialism” from Existentialists and Mystics.