T he reputation of the French existentialist and feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) has a certain irony attached to it. The major claim of her most important book, The Second Sex ...

How existentialism shaped—and then faded from—modern thought. In 1938, while sitting in a cafe on the Boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris, Jean-Paul Sartre experienced a pivotal moment of revelation that ...

Hannah Horvath is an existentialist: Talking to the authors of "Girls and Philosophy" The philosopher duo on feminism, child sexuality and why we shouldn't get mad at Lena Dunham ...

Early in her new book, “At the Existentialist Café,” Sarah Bakewell admits that her beloved existentialism has seen better days. Once the preferred method for making sense of a godless world ...

This edition of Lately in Literature features Fernanda Melchor’s thought provoking and powerful Novel ‘Paradais.’ The novel focuses on American influence abroad, as well as the prevalence of ...