Bloomsbury Handbook of Existentialism

This fully revised and updated 2nd edition provides a comprehensive reference guide to existentialism featuring key chapters on key existentialist thinkers as well as chapters applying existentialism to subject areas ranging across politics literature feminism religion the emotions cognitive science and poststructuralism.<br/> <br/> Contemporary developments in the field of existentialism that speak to issues of identity and exclusion are explored in 4 new chapters on race gender disability and technology whilst the 5th new chapter new chapter outlines analytic philosophy's complicated relationship to existentialism. Presenting the field of existentialism beyond the European tradition this edition also includes a new key thinker chapter on Frantz Fanon alongside Kierkegaard Nietzsche Heidegger Sartre and de Beauvoir as well as new engagement with the work of scholars on race and existentialism including Lewis R. Gordon George Yancy and Richard Wright.<br/> <br/> The resources section at the end of the book includes an updated A to Z glossary and timeline of key events texts and thinkers in existentialism as well as a list of relevant organisations and an annotated guide to further reading making this 2nd edition an invaluable text for scholars and students alike.