Gary Cox

A concise and humorous introduction to existentialism aimed squarely at a general readership - and available in paperback for the first time.

Or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses

How to Be an Existentialist

Gavin

Chatty, trite, and pretentious. ("Young people are stupid", "disabled people should stop moping".) It is at least trying to process the philosophy's thick and styleless abstractions into an accessible intro, but ends up being childish, macho, and uncritical. 

He's a tenured academic, too! Taken as systematic description of the real world, Existentialism is a fruitless neo-Kantian mess. Taken as extreme postwar poetry or stoic-fictionalist cognitive stance, it is perhaps beautiful in a way.

How to Be an Existentialist Or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses

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