-:- an Existential Reading List by Katharena -:-

Alienation | Ambiguity | Angst or Anxiety | Awareness as Agony | Bad Faith | Being | Boredom | Christian Existentialism | Death | Demythologized | Ethics and Morality | Existence Precedes Essence | Existential | Existentialism | Faceless | Fight Club | for None and All | Futility | God is Dead! | Hell is Other People! | Individualism | Nausea | Nothingness -- Nonbeing | Phenomenology Theatre of the Absurd |

• Realm of Existentialism
• Minds of Existentialism
• Basics of Existentialism
• Existential Quotes
• Theatre of the Absurd
• Existential-Speak
• Existential Think Tank
• 54 Existential Essentials
• Existential Divas!

Bad Faith: --(French mauvaise foi) in the existentialist philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, a type of moral self-deception, involving our behaving as a mere thing rather than choosing authentically. In bad faith, we evade responsibility and anxiety by not noticing possibilities of choice, or by behaving in a role others expect of us.

Sartre derives the concept from his metaphysical analysis of being. Humans must strive to escape mere being-in-itself and to achieve their true being, being-for-itself.