Tag: "existentialism"

No Exit to Portland

Tim Madigan watches a performance of Jean-Paul Sartre’s best-known play, and learns about Anguish.
[Issue 53: November/December 2005: Theatre]

Why Sartre Matters

Benedict O’Donohoe introduces our Sartre centenary issue.
[Issue 53: November/December 2005: Jean-Paul Sartre at 100]

Existentialism edited by Robert C. Solomon

John Shand enjoys a collection of essays about existentialism.
[Issue 53: November/December 2005: Books]

Colin Wilson is an author, existentialist philosopher and scholar of the occult. He has been writing fact and fiction for nearly fifty years. On the launch of his autobiography, Alan Morrison thought this might be an apt time to speak to the man himself.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005: Interview]

Is an Existentialist Ethics Possible?

Does Sartre’s philosophy give us any clues about how we should live? Yes, says Jonathan Crowe – he showed us that we can’t avoid choosing.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004: Articles]

The View from Mount Zapffe

Gisle Tangenes describes the life and ideas of a cheerfully pessimistic, mountain-climbing Norwegian existentialist.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004: Articles]

Gravity

A short story by Mairi Wilson.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004: Short Story]

The Last Messiah

The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933. Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004: Articles]

Sartre & Peanuts

Nathan Radke claims that Charlie Brown is an existentialist.
[Issue 44: January/February 2004: Articles]

Is Homosexuality ‘Bad Faith’?

Terri Murray says that Jean-Paul Sartre was simply wrong about gay people and self-deception.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003: Articles]

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