Existentialism

Existentialism is a philosophical movement that claims that individual human beings have full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own lives. It is a reaction against more traditional philosophies, such as rationalism and empiricism, which sought to discover an ultimate order in metaphysical principles or in the structure of the observed world.

The Stranger
Nausea
The Plague
The Metamorphosis
Existentialism is a Humanism
The Trial
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Fall (Vintage International)
Being and Nothingness
Notes from Underground
Crime and Punishment
Man's Search for Meaning
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Waiting for Godot
Fear and Trembling
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas SowellThe Use of Knowledge in Society by Friedrich A. HayekThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtThe Writings of William James by William  JamesThe Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
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Cornelia Funke
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
Cornelia Funke

Albert Camus
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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