College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Existentialism
Module PHL3002 for 2022/3
Module PHL3002 for 2022/3
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
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.