Coming to Terms with the Need for Meaning: How an Existential Demand Awakens in Camus’s L’Étranger

A powerful new anthology that redefines ourunderstanding of existentialism and argues for itscontemporary relevance A Penguin Classic In the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of intellectua...

Sartre’s phenomenology reveals how a shift from subject to object (and back) is not merely a matter of grammar

'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety' - Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Café ‘We are thrown into the world at every moment, an...

Frantz Fanon, who was born in Martinique, died aged 36. He nevertheless made very significant contributions to the discussion of racism and colonialism, influenced strongly by the existentialist tradi...

From stereotypes via sedimentation to behaviour: how existentialism can help us understand ourselves today

In the wake of Frantz Fanon’s 100th birthday, Sam Chian offers a close reading of The Wretched of the Earth, arguing that Fanon’s primary intervention lies in his class analysis of colonial…

The postcolonial thinker's ideas were forged in the fire of Algerian liberation – but his views were more nuanced than his myth suggests

Born 100 years ago this July in Martinique, the psychiatrist, political philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon inspired oppressed people worldwide to fight for liberation. His radical assertion of...