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If you loved What Is Existentialism? by Simone De Beauvoir, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Existentialism, Good & Evil, French, and Movements.

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Words

Jean-Paul Sartre

Themes: Existentialism • French • Movements

The Boxer and the Goal Keeper Sartre Versus Camus

Andrew Martin

Themes: Existentialism • French • Movements

A Critique of Jean Paul Sartre’s Ontology

Maurice Natanson

Themes: Existentialism • French • Movements

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Themes: Existentialism • Good & Evil • Movements

Fear and Trembling — Soren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard

Themes: Existentialism • Good & Evil • Movements

Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition

Hugh White

Themes: Good & Evil • French • European

The Anti-Christ

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Themes: Existentialism • Good & Evil • Movements

Witness Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom

Ariel Burger

Themes: French • Movements • European

Contested Borders Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb

William J. Spurlin

Themes: French • Movements • European

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Fear and Trembling A New Translation

Søren Kierkegaard

Themes: Existentialism • Good & Evil • Movements

#11

The Confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Themes: French • Movements • European

#12

Beauvoir and Politics A Toolkit

Liesbeth Schoonheim

Themes: French • Movements • European

#13

Beckett Beyond the Normal

Seán Kennedy

Themes: French • Movements • European

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Derrida, Deconstruction, and the Politics of Pedagogy

Michael A. Peters

Themes: French • Movements • European

#15

Clandestine Encounters Philosophy in the Narratives of Maurice Blanchot

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Kevin Hart

Themes: French • Movements • European

#16

Spirit Guides and Angels How I Communicate with Heaven

Kevin Hunter

Themes: Existentialism • Good & Evil • Movements

#17

Reading Lacan

Jane Gallop

Themes: French • Movements • European

#18

Blanchot and the Moving Image Fascination and Spectatorship

Calum Watt

Themes: French • Movements • European

#19

Georges Bataille Phenomenology and Phantasmatology

Rodolphe Gasché

Themes: French • Movements • European

#20

Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, & Feminism

Nancy Bauer

Themes: Existentialism • Movements • Literary Criticism

#21

Critique of Critique

Roy Ben-Shai

Themes: Existentialism • Movements • Literary Criticism

#22

Quiet Moments in a War The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir, 1940-1963

Jean-Paul Sartre

Themes: Existentialism • Movements • Literary Criticism

#23

Sartre Romantic Rationalist

Iris Murdoch

Themes: Existentialism • Movements • Literary Criticism

#24

Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction

Thomas Flynn

Themes: Existentialism • Movements • Literary Criticism

If What Is Existentialism? by Simone De Beauvoir is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Existentialism, Good & Evil, French and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Jean-Paul Sartre, Andrew Martin, Maurice Natanson, Friedrich Nietzsche, and others.