Bloomsbury Companion to Existentialism

Jack Reynolds is Chair of Philosophy at Deakin University, Australia. He has written four books: Chronopathologies: The Politics of Time in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology (2012), Analytic Versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy (2010, with James Chase), Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (2004), and Understanding Existentialism (2006). He has also co-edited five collections: Sartre: Key Concepts (2013), Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides (2010), Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (2008) and Understanding Derrida (Continuum 2004). Felicity Joseph teaches philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Ashley Woodward is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, UK. He is a founding member of The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, and an editor of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy. He is author of Understanding Nietzscheanism (2011), Nihilism in Postmodernity: Lyotard, Baudrillard, Vattimo (2010), editor of Interpreting Nietzsche (2011) and co-editor of Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (2007) and Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology (2012).

An exceptionally fruitful addition to the Continuum Companions, this volume on Existentialism gathers together an impressive range of scholars on a wide variety of research areas ranging through the philosophical, the psychoanalytic, the historical, the religious, and the literary to contemporary cognitive science and politics. Highly recommended for students and academics alike.

• Contributors1. Introduction Felicity Joseph, Jack Reynolds and Ashley Woodward (University of Melbourne, La Trobe University and Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Australia)2. Existentialism, Phenomenology and Philosophical Method Felicity Joseph and Jack Reynolds (University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, Australia)Part I: Current Research and Issues 3. Existentialism, Metaphysics and Ontology Christian Onof (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)4. Existentialism and Politics David Sherman (University of Montana, USA)5. Existentialism, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Douglas Kirsner (Deakin University, Australia)6. Existentialism and Ethics Debra Bergoffen (George Mason University, USA)7. Existentialism and Religion George Pattison (University of Oxford, UK)8. Existentialism and Literature Colin Davis (Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK)9. Existentialism, Feminism and Sexuality Marguerite La Caze (University of Queensland, Australia)10. Existentialism and the Emotions Suzanne L. Cataldi (Southern Illinois University, USA)11. Existentialism, Authenticity and the Self Christopher Macann12. Existentialism and Latin America Roberto Domingo Toledo (Stony Brook University, USA)Part II: New Directions 13. Existentialism and Cognitive Science Michael Wheeler and Ezequiel Di Paolo (University of Stirling, UK and University of the Basque Country, Spain)14. Existentialism and Poststructuralism: Some Unfashionable Observations Jack Reynolds and Ashley Woodward (La Trobe University and Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Australia)15. Recent Developments in Scholarship on Key ExistentialistsI. Kierkegaard William McDonald (University of New England, USA)II. Nietzsche Keith Ansell-Pearson (University of Warwick, UK)III. Heidegger Andrew J. Mitchell (Emory University, USA)IV. Sartre Peter Gratton (University of San Diego, USA)V. De Beauvoir Laura Hengehold (Case Western Reserve University, USA)Part III: Resources16. A–Z Glossary17. A Chronology of Key Events, Texts and Thinkers18. Research Resources in Existentialism19. Annotated Guide to Further ReadingIndex