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Existential Recommendation

NondumCelebrer
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Posted 08/23/08 - 07:38 AM: Subject: Existential Recommendation	#1
Hi all, could someone please recommend a good place to start gaining an understanding of Existentialism? I am taking a course on it in the fall and due to the rest of my workload I would like to have at least a little understanding beforehand. Books, websites, blogs, dissertations scribbled on bathroom stall walls, all recommendations are appreciated.
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Posted 08/23/08 - 12:36 PM:	#2
Try William Barrett's Irrational Man.
Be outrageous but don't be an ass.

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Posted 08/23/08 - 01:04 PM:	#3
Sartre's L'existentialisme est un humanisme is of course main "popular" introduction to existentialism (though Sartre later turned against the idea of existentialist morality described therein).
The grounding-attunement of the first beginning is deep wonder that beings are, that man himself is extant, extant in that which he is not.

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