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I'm fairly new to in-depth reading and philosophy, so I want to get into it. What books should I get to start my Existentialist collection? Any genre is okay, fiction or nonfiction. Preferably some classics to start with, like Camus or Dostoyevsky, but I don't know which works I should specifically get.

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>>12383806
two dogmas of empiricism by quine - existential book about meaning of meaning. strongly advice for philosophical newfags

>> No.12384187

Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling
Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground
Camus - Myth of Sisyphus & The Stranger
Sartre - Nausea
Beauvoir - The Ethics of Ambiguity

that would be a good sampler of relatively short and more accessible works. alternatively just get a copy of Heidegger's Being and Time and Sartre's Being and Nothingness and read them back to back (Heidegger first, as Sartre's is a response)

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>>12384187
Some of those I wouldn't call accessible to someone "new to in-depth reading and philosophy"

>> No.12385395

>>12384187
Being and Nothingness was fucking shit. Sartre was a shit French asshole who wanted to fuck kids.

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Start with "The Stranger" by Albert Camus. It's very short, and also widely read. It's both a good insight into Camus's philosophy, and an enjoyable read.

>> No.12387297

>>12383868
This, and more generally theatre by Sartre. Best existentialist starting point I can think of.

>> No.12387323

>>12383806
Start with Kierkegaard. You'd be astonished how much of the rest of existentialism is various retards misreading and misunderstanding Kierkegaard.