#Existentialism

5 books tagged with existentialism, sorted by rating.

Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche

4/5

philosophy

The Myth of Sisyphus

by Albert Camus

4/5

philosophy

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

4/5

philosophy

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

4/5

philosophy

Being and Nothingness

by Jean-Paul Sartre

3/5

psychology

Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche

4/5

Nietzsche's bold challenge to conventional morality and the assumptions of Western philosophy. He dismantles the concept of objective truth and argues that philosophers have been blind to their own prejudices, calling for a new breed of "free spirits" unbound by tradition.

philosophy

The Myth of Sisyphus

by Albert Camus

4/5

Camus opens with philosophy's most fundamental question — whether life is worth living — and builds his philosophy of the absurd. Using the Greek myth of Sisyphus condemned to roll a boulder uphill for eternity, Camus argues we must imagine Sisyphus happy.

philosophy

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

4/5

Camus's iconic novel follows Meursault, an emotionally detached Algerian clerk who commits an inexplicable murder and faces trial — not just for his crime, but for his refusal to conform to society's expectations about grief, emotion, and meaning.

philosophy

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

4/5

Nietzsche's literary and philosophical masterpiece follows the prophet Zarathustra as he descends from his mountain solitude to share his wisdom with humanity. Through parables and speeches, the book introduces the Übermensch, the will to power, and the eternal recurrence.

philosophy

Being and Nothingness

by Jean-Paul Sartre

3/5

Sartre's magnum opus and the foundational text of existentialism. Through dense phenomenological analysis, Sartre argues that human consciousness is fundamentally free, that we are "condemned to be free," and that existence precedes essence — we define ourselves through our choices.

psychology