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Existentialist Philosophers

Karl Jaspers, On my Philosophy (essay)

Jean Paul Sartre, The Wall (short story) & Existentialism is a Humanism. 1946

Feminism & Existentialism

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (The Introduction). 1949 & She Came to Stay. 1943
Adrienne Rich, Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations. 2001
bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. 2000
Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light (collected essays). 1988

Academic Works

Dr. Linda A. Bell, Rethinking Ethics in the Midst of Violence. 1993

Very Accessible

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet. 1954 (rev. ed.)

Existential Psychology

Viktor Emil Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning. 1962

Christian Existentialism

Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be (Yale Nota Bene). 1952