The Bloomsbury Handbook of Existentialism (Bloomsbury Handbooks)

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. 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. 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. Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Contributors Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Existentialism, Phenomenology and Method Part I: Current Research and Issues Chapter 3: Existentialism, Metaphysics and Ontology Chapter 4: Existentialism and Politics Chapter 5: Existentialism, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Chapter 6: Existentialism and Ethics Chapter 7: Existentialism and Religion Chapter 8: Existentialism and Literature Chapter 9: Existentialism, Feminism and Sexuality Chapter 10: Existentialism and the Emotions Chapter 11: Existentialism, Authenticity and the Self Chapter 12: Existentialism and Latin America Chapter 13: Existentialism and Gender Part II: New Directions Chapter 14: Existentialism and Cognitive Science Chapter 15: Existentialism and Poststructuralism: Some Unfashionable Observations Chapter 16: Existentialism and Technology Chapter 17: Existentialism and (Dis)ability Chapter 18: Mexistentialism Chapter 19: Existentialism and Analytic Philosophy Chapter 20: Existentialism and Racism Chapter 21: Developments in Scholarship on Key Existentialists Part III: Resources Chapter 22: A–Z Glossary Chapter 23: Chronology of Key Events Chapter 24: Research Resources in Existentialism Chapter 25: Annotated Guide to Further Reading Index