The Bloomsbury Handbook of Existentialism - (Bloomsbury Handbooks) by Jack Reynolds & Ashley Woodward & Felicity Joseph (Paperback)

About the Book

Fully updated 2nd edition reference work on existentialism that engages with key thinkers and charts their application to pressing contemporary concerns, from race and gender to technology.

Book Synopsis

This fully revised and updated 2nd edition provides a comprehensive reference guide to existentialism, featuring key chapters on key existentialist thinkers, as well as chapters applying existentialism to subject areas ranging across politics, literature, feminism, religion, the emotions, cognitive science, and poststructuralism.

Contemporary developments in the field of existentialism that speak to issues of identity and exclusion are explored in 4 new chapters on race, gender, disability, and technology, whilst the 5th new chapter new chapter outlines analytic philosophy's complicated relationship to existentialism. Presenting the field of existentialism beyond the European tradition, this edition also includes a new key thinker chapter on Frantz Fanon, alongside Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir, as well as new engagement with the work of scholars on race and existentialism, including Lewis R. Gordon, George Yancy, and Richard Wright.

The resources section at the end of the book includes an updated A to Z glossary, and timeline of key events, texts and thinkers in existentialism, as well as a list of relevant organisations, and an annotated guide to further reading, making this 2nd edition an invaluable text for scholars and students alike.

Review Quotes

"This handbook is unique in that it is both an excellent systematic introduction to Existentialism as well as a discussion of it as a living tradition. This is the book to read if one wishes to encounter an Existentialism that is alive and kicking." --Tina Röck, Senior Lecturer, University of Dundee, UK

About the Author

Jack Reynolds is Chair of Philosophy at Deakin University, Australia.

Ashley Woodward is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, UK.

Felicity Joseph teaches philosophy at the University of New England, Australia.