Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
Introduction Existentialism Is a Humanism is one of the most influential and accessible explanations of existentialism, written by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. First delivered as a public lecture, the book responds directly to critics who misunderstood existentialism as pessimistic, immoral, or nihilistic. Instead, Sartre presents…
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Introduction Being and Time is one of the most influential and challenging philosophical works of the twentieth century. First published in 1927, Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time radically reoriented philosophy by asking a deceptively simple question: What does it mean to be? Rather than treating…