This fully revised and updated 2nd edition provides a comprehensive reference guide to existentialism, featuring 6 chapters on key existentialist thinkers, as well as 17 chapters applying existentialism to subject areas ranging across politics, literature, feminism, religion, the emotions, cognitive science, and poststructuralism. Contemporary developments in the field of existentialism that speak to issues of identity and exclusion are explored in 4 new chapters on race, gender, disability, and technology, whilst the 5th new chapter outlines analytic philosophy’s complicated relationship to existentialism.

Presenting the field of existentialism beyond the European tradition, this edition also includes a new key thinker chapter on Frantz Fanon, alongside Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir, as well as references to the work of scholars on race and existentialism via new glossary entries on Lewis R. Gordon, George Yancy, and Richard Wright.

The resources section at the end of the book includes an updated A to Z glossary, and timeline of key events, texts and thinkers in existentialism, as well as a list of relevant organisations, and an annotated guide to further reading, making this 2nd edition an invaluable text for scholars and students alike. .