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What are some books and articles I can read to know more about existentialism?
I know this frog is one of them. Anyone else I should check? Camus? Kierkegaard?

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>>16603122
Pic related has a Sartre essay on The Stranger. The Pdf is on b-ok.cc

>> No.16603180

>>16603152
Thanks. Should I read the Stranger as well?

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>>16603122
just read camus and sartre themselves. the stranger is a very good book but it's a literary work so you might not understand the philosophy. for that you can read the myth of sysiphus, which is a philosophical essay that explains all the ideas of absurdism. it's very short and not very hard to read but it does have some references to other older philosophers so it might help to know something about them. but
camus has more books that are fiction, they might be worth reading but I haven't got to it yet. I heard good things about the plague.
from sartre I read nausea. another fiction book it's about a guy who walks around a city and thinks about stuff. it's good. I was recommended "dirty hands" by him but again, I haven't got to it yet.
dostoyevsky is also an existentialist, in a way so you might look into him.
kirkegaard solves the meaning of life problem by telling you to just believe in god, so he's a hack don't read him.

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read pic related also

>> No.16603232

>>16603183
I have Crime and Punishment, I didn't know Dostoyesvsky was an exitentialist.
>kirkegaard solves the meaning of life problem by telling you to just believe in god, so he's a hack don't read him.
Isn't he like the father of existentialism?

>> No.16603240

Kierkegaard is the only existentialist that kind of succeeded at his endeavor. The others all failed. They are at best superfluous so you can skip them.

>> No.16603263

>>16603240
Okay so which works of his would you recommend?

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>>16603122
William Barrett's Irrational Man is the best introduction to the subject I've been able to find. I actually prefer it to the texts he discusses.

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>>16603272
Thank you anon, this may be what exactly I'm looking for.

>> No.16603329

>>16603232
the edition of the myth I got analyzes dostoyevsky in a chapter and claims he's a precursor to existentialism. demons deals with suicide which is an important existentialist problem and brothers karamazov dwells on freedom and god.

i was joking, yes kirk's the father of existentialism. but camus criticizes his "leap of faith", i.e., belief in god to give life meaning

>> No.16603338

>>16603240
t. absurdlet

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>>16603122
just do what sartre did and use alot of mind altering drugs

>> No.16603353

>>16603240
they're not usually mentioned but Shestov and Berdyaev also made what are basically Christian Existentialist philosophies, in a somewhat similar manner. Here is a short essay by Berdyaev discussing Shestov and Kierkegaard, he has much more material about the general subject.
http://www.berdyaev.com/berdiaev/berd_lib/1936_419.html