Draft:Outline of existentialism

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to existentialism:

What type of thing is existentialism?
Existentialism can be described as all of the following:


 * a branch of philosophy

Branches of existentialism

 * Agnostic existentialism
 * Atheistic existentialism
 * Black existentialism
 * Christian existentialism
 * Existential humanism
 * Existential nihilism
 * Feminist existentialism
 * Jewish existentialism
 * Existential phenomenology

History of existentialism
History of existentialism

General existentialism concepts

 * Abandonment
 * Absurdism
 * Angst
 * Authenticity
 * Bad faith
 * Being in itself
 * Existence precedes essence – the thought that the existence of humans precede their essence, or their identity.
 * Existential crisis
 * Facticity
 * Meaning
 * Meaning of life and existentialism
 * Nihilism
 * Other

Existentialism organizations

 * Karl Jaspers Society of North America
 * Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union
 * Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

Existentialist books

 * Being and Nothingness – 1943 book by Jean-Paul Sartre
 * Being and Time – 1927 book by Martin Heidegger
 * Existentialism Is a Humanism – 1946 book by Jean-Paul Sartre
 * Irrational Man – 1958 book by William Barrett
 * Lukacs and Heidegger: Towards a New Philosophy – Book by Lucien Goldmann
 * Man's Search for Meaning – 1946 book by Viktor Frankl
 * The Outsider – 1956 book by Colin Wilson

Existentialist journals

 * Existenz (journal) – journal covering research in philosophy, religion, politics, and the arts
 * Sartre Studies International – academic journal

Notable existentialists

 * Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
 * Hazel Barnes (1915–2008)
 * Martin Buber (1878–1965)
 * Albert Camus (1913–1960)
 * Emil Cioran (1911–1995)
 * Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)
 * Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)
 * William A. Earle (1919–1988)
 * Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)
 * Karl Jaspers (1883–1969)
 * Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)
 * Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961)
 * Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
 * Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980)

Influential non-existentialists

 * Edmund Husserl (1859–1938)
 * Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)