The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism

Introduction Kevin Aho, Megan Altman, and Hans Pedersen

Part 1: Methodology and Technology

1. Existential Phenomenology and Concepts: Thinking with Heidegger Lawrence Hatab

2. Existential Phenomenology and Qualitative Research Anthony Vincent Fernandez

3. Existentialism and AI in the 21^st-Century: Thoughts on the Control Problem Hans Pedersen

4. Existentialism and Death in a Digital Age Patrick Stokes

5. Being in Digital Worlds Rebecca Longtin

Part 2: Social and Political Perspectives

6. Existence Theory and Contemporary Culture Patrick Baert, Marcus Morgan, and Rin Ushiyama

7. Sartre and the Politics of the Far Right William Remley

8. Existentialism and Political Transformation: Sartre and the Ambiguities of Freedom and Praxis Laura McMahon

9. Arendt’s Political Existentialism Niall Keane

10. Four Reasons for Rebellion: On the Existentialist Revolt against the Crowd Antony Aumann

11. Self-Creation in Chicana Feminism Lori Gallegos and Emma Velez

Part 3: Environment and Place

12. Place, Dwelling, Existence Janet Donohoe

13. Existentialism and Place: Reflections on the Significance of Place through Goldsworthy, Heidegger, and Nietzsche Gerard Kuperus

14. An Eco-Existentialist Analysis of the Lived Experience of Climate Change and Its Denial Ruth Tietjen

15. Latina Existentialism and the Multiplicitous Self: Being-between-worlds and Not Being-at-Ease Mariana Ortega

16. Mexican Existentialism Carlos Alberto Sánchez

Part 4: Affectivity and Emotion

17. Faces of Finitude: Death, Loss, and Trauma Robert Stolorow

18. Revisiting Kierkegaard on Anxiety and Despair Emily Hughes

19. Shame Luna Dolezal

20. Beauvoir on Non-Monogamy in Loving Relationships Ellie Anderson

Part 5: Death and Freedom

21. Death Is an Injustice: Dispelling a Common Myth about Existentialism and Mortality Adam Buben

22. We are Our Possibilities: From Sartre to Beauvoir to Løgstrup Matthew Ratcliffe

23. Existential Choice Revisited Richard Polt

24. Existentialism in Frederick Douglass James Haile III

Part 6: Value

25. Black Nihilism Devon Johnson

26. Nothing Matters: Heidegger on Nietzsche on Nihilism Lee Braver

27. Ideal Value and Exemplary Experience Irene McMullin

28. Existential Crises Katherine Withy

29. Existential Normativity and Secular Faith Steven Crowell

30. Kierkegaard on Evading Moral Evasions Gordon Marino

Part 7: Existentialism and Asian Philosophy

31. Recuperating from Existential Emptiness Sickness: Nishitani after Sartre Jason Wirth

32. Nothingness and Love in Nietzsche and the Kyoto School Rick Anthony Furtak

33. Buddhism and Existentialism: Saṃvega as Existential Dread of the Human Condition Stephen Harris

34. Self-Awareness and Nothingness: Wang Yangming, Wang Ji, and Existential Confucianism Eric Nelson

Part 8: Approaches to Aging and Disability

35. The Phenomenology of Frailty: Existentialism and Old-Age Vulnerability Fredrik Svenaeus

36. Shifting Horizons in Aging and the Call for a Spiralic Understanding of the Future Kirsten Jacobson

37. Authenticity and Aging John Russon

38. Useless Mouths or Useful Labour? Applying Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Old Age to Gray Labour Force Exploitation Shannon Musset

39. Nostalgia and Well-Being: An Existentialist Analysis Dylan Trigg

40. Possibilities of which I Am: Disability, Existentialism, and Embodiment Joel Michael Reynolds.

Index

Biography

Kevin Aho is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Communication and Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA.

Megan Altman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell College, USA.

Hans Pedersen is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA.

'In 40 original chapters, current philosophers offer a reevaluation of core existential topics, bringing them into conversation with contemporary concerns...Of note, this volume makes significant gains in decolonizing existentialism and uncovering existential themes across a diverse array of non-European philosophical and sociological perspectives. As with previous Routledge handbooks, this handbook is well edited and organized with a usable index. Summing Up: Highly recommended.' - CHOICE