The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy

ed. Jonathan Webber

This book consists of 21 carefully-chosen extracts, mostly from the usual suspects Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Beauvoir, but also including two from Frantz Fanon, and a discussion of Albert Camus’s claim not to be an existentialist. Specialists in existentialism will quibble about what has been left out, but for the general reader, this is a great starting point, and is particularly strong on the Sartre-Beauvoir axis.