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Existential Philosophy Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,456,004 ratings — published 1942
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,388 ratings — published 1843
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 180,215 ratings — published 1883
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 3.93 — 142,885 ratings — published 1938
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 3.98 — 47,869 ratings — published 1946
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,174 ratings — published 1942
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,557 ratings — published 1843
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.16 — 100,685 ratings — published 1942
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,271 ratings — published 1927
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.17 — 242,726 ratings — published 1864
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,281 ratings — published 1949
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.03 — 140,047 ratings — published 1956
The Rebel (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,375 ratings — published 1951
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,478 ratings — published 1849
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 3.90 — 76,776 ratings — published 1956
At the Existentialist Café (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.24 — 19,689 ratings — published 2016
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,481,636 ratings — published 1915
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.02 — 322,810 ratings — published 1947
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 3.94 — 407,474 ratings — published 1925
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,485 ratings — published 1943
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,511 ratings — published 1945
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,287 ratings — published 1947
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,861 ratings — published 1956
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 3.98 — 21,812 ratings — published 1871
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.12 — 36,788 ratings — published 1887
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.03 — 116,929 ratings — published 1886
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.39 — 399,662 ratings — published 1880
All Men Are Mortal (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,840 ratings — published 1946
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.11 — 47,769 ratings — published 1944
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.37 — 906,389 ratings — published 1946
I and Thou (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 12,005 ratings — published 1923
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,686 ratings — published 1958
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,592 ratings — published 1950
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,115,908 ratings — published 1866
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.21 — 224,060 ratings — published 1869
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.17 — 85,714 ratings — published 1988
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.29 — 185,306 ratings — published -350
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.30 — 64,979 ratings — published 1872
When Nietzsche Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.36 — 85,849 ratings — published 1992
The Will to Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,363 ratings — published 1901
Ubik (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.11 — 125,739 ratings — published 1969
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.08 — 894,242 ratings — published 1922
The Glass Bead Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.10 — 43,096 ratings — published 1943
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,816 ratings — published 1932
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.13 — 220,448 ratings — published 1927
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,024 ratings — published 1887
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,011 ratings — published 1844
Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,588 ratings — published 1960
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,493 ratings — published 1971
The Outsider (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-philosophy)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,600 ratings — published 1956
“He thought about the loss of humanity that was eating away at the world and the loss of the connection to the self that ate away at the consciousness which animated all into being. He thought about how the collective psyche was teetering on that knife’s edge between a desperation to live and a desperation to die. And here he was at the cusp of it himself.”
― The Subtle Cause
― The Subtle Cause
“The Bottomless Void
I am seized by a longing
to dwell in the bottomless void,
where weight plummets,
and the heart ascends.
There, love knows no edges,
asks nothing, promises nothing,
only levitates—
like a vapor that knows
All is already whole.
There is no time,
no names, no fear;
only silence that breathes through light
and an invisible thread
that binds all we've lost
To all we've understood.
I am seized by a longing
to no longer be—
and yet, to be more fully
than ever before.”
―
I am seized by a longing
to dwell in the bottomless void,
where weight plummets,
and the heart ascends.
There, love knows no edges,
asks nothing, promises nothing,
only levitates—
like a vapor that knows
All is already whole.
There is no time,
no names, no fear;
only silence that breathes through light
and an invisible thread
that binds all we've lost
To all we've understood.
I am seized by a longing
to no longer be—
and yet, to be more fully
than ever before.”
―
