
How to Be an Existentialist
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An attack on contemporary excuse culture, the book urges us to face the hard existential truths of the human condition. By revealing that we are all inescapably free and responsible - 'condemned to be free,' as Sartre says - the book aims to empower the reader with a sharp sense that we are each the master of our own destiny. Cox makes fun of the reputation existentialism has for being gloomy and pessimistic, exposing it for what it really is - an honest, uplifting, and potentially life changing philosophy!
This striking 10th anniversary edition with a substantial new preface includes more pointers on how to be a true existentialist, including how to be an existentialist at a time when environmental issues are becoming ever more pressing and our 'post-truth' world increasingly subjects us to the politically polarising power of simplistic social media.
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- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to the tenth anniversary edition
- Introduction
- 1. What is an Existentialist?
- 2. What is Existentialism?
- Brief overview and quick history lesson
- Existentialism and consciousness
- Temporality
- Being-for-others
- Freedom and responsibility
- Freedom and disability
- Possible limits to freedom
- Freedom and anxiety
- 3. How Not to Be an Existentialist
- Bad faith is not self-deception
- Flirting and teasing
- Waiters, actors and attitudes
- Homosexuality, sincerity and transcendence
- Wilful ignorance
- Contingency, nausea and the Existential Alka-Seltzer of bad faith
- Moustaches and salauds
- 4. How to Be Authentic
- Authenticity and getting real
- Being-in-situation
- Freedom as a value
- The problem of being authentic
- Authenticity and intelligence
- Authenticity and other people
- Nietzsche on authenticity - regret nothing
- Heidegger on authenticity - authentic being-towards-death
- 5. Existential Counselling
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
- Index
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