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🥱 Existential Ennui

A refined weariness pervades these pages, where characters drift through lives of privilege or routine, haunted by a listlessness that no distraction can cure.
Marshlands
by André Gide • 1895
To write about a man at peace with stagnation, a writer must confront his own paralysis.
3.58
1k+
📖 Novel Within A Novel🤔 Philosophical Fiction✒️ Writer Protagonist
Marshlands Summary
Marshlands 88%
To write about a man at peace with stagnation, a writer must confront his own paralysis.
by André Gide 1895
3.58
1k+ ratings
📖 Novel Within A Novel🤔 Philosophical Fiction✒️ Writer Protagonist
Studies in Pessimism
by Arthur Schopenhauer • 1890
Beneath all striving is a blind will: pleasure is pain's absence, and boredom fills every gap.
3.88
2k+
🖤 Philosophical Pessimism🇩🇪 German Philosophy😣 Desire And Suffering
Studies in Pessimism Summary
Studies in Pessimism 88%
Beneath all striving is a blind will: pleasure is pain's absence, and boredom fills every gap.
by Arthur Schopenhauer 1890
3.88
2k+ ratings
🖤 Philosophical Pessimism🇩🇪 German Philosophy😣 Desire And Suffering
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre • 1938
A historian's diary becomes a record of his unraveling as ordinary objects turn hostile and unreal.
3.93
142k+
🖤 Existentialist Novel📚 Philosophical Fiction😶 Alienated Protagonist
Nausea Summary
Nausea 88%
A historian's diary becomes a record of his unraveling as ordinary objects turn hostile and unreal.
by Jean-Paul Sartre 1938
3.93
142k+ ratings
🖤 Existentialist Novel📚 Philosophical Fiction😶 Alienated Protagonist
The Power of Boredom
by Mark A. Hawkins • 2016
The discomfort of boredom isn't a bug; it's the mind's essential signal for a meaningful life.
3.93
106
🥱 Boredom Studies🧘 Mental Stillness🧭 Finding Meaning
The Power of Boredom Summary
The Power of Boredom 88%
The discomfort of boredom isn't a bug; it's the mind's essential signal for a meaningful life.
by Mark A. Hawkins 2016
3.93
106 ratings
🥱 Boredom Studies🧘 Mental Stillness🧭 Finding Meaning
Bartleby the Scrivener
by Herman Melville • 1853
A Wall Street lawyer hires a quiet scrivener who stops working and will not say why.
3.93
77k+
🏢 Office Monotony🤫 Quiet Defiance🖤 Existential Despair
Bartleby the Scrivener Summary
Bartleby the Scrivener 88%
A Wall Street lawyer hires a quiet scrivener who stops working and will not say why.
by Herman Melville 1853
3.93
77k+ ratings
🏢 Office Monotony🤫 Quiet Defiance🖤 Existential Despair
The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati • 1940
A young officer at a remote fort waits a lifetime for a battle that never comes.
4.20
43k+
🏰 Existential Allegory⏳ Wasted Life🇮🇹 Italian Modernism
The Tartar Steppe Summary
The Tartar Steppe 88%
A young officer at a remote fort waits a lifetime for a battle that never comes.
by Dino Buzzati 1940
4.20
43k+ ratings
🏰 Existential Allegory⏳ Wasted Life🇮🇹 Italian Modernism
[The Music of Chance] [By
by Paul Auster • 1990
A poker loss traps a drifter building a stone wall to buy back his freedom.
3.93
14k+
🖤 Existential Fiction🏰 Kafkaesque Nightmare🚗 Aimless Road Trip
[The Music of Chance] [By Summary
[The Music of Chance] [By 88%
A poker loss traps a drifter building a stone wall to buy back his freedom.
by Paul Auster 1990
3.93
14k+ ratings
🖤 Existential Fiction🏰 Kafkaesque Nightmare🚗 Aimless Road Trip
El ruletista
by Mircea Cărtărescu • 2011
A dying writer's last testimony: the man who made a living playing Russian roulette.
4.20
6k+
💀 Existential Fiction🪞 Metafiction🎪 Death As Spectacle
El ruletista Summary
El ruletista 88%
A dying writer's last testimony: the man who made a living playing Russian roulette.
by Mircea Cărtărescu 2011
4.20
6k+ ratings
💀 Existential Fiction🪞 Metafiction🎪 Death As Spectacle
The Factory
by Hiroko Oyamada • 2010
She shreds paper all day in a factory that holds a city inside it and reveals nothing.
3.30
12k+
🏭 Workplace Absurdism🌫️ Quiet Surrealism💼 Corporate Ennui
The Factory Summary
The Factory 88%
She shreds paper all day in a factory that holds a city inside it and reveals nothing.
by Hiroko Oyamada 2010
3.30
12k+ ratings
🏭 Workplace Absurdism🌫️ Quiet Surrealism💼 Corporate Ennui
Identity
by Milan Kundera • 1997
A woman who believes men no longer see her receives anonymous letters insisting she is beautiful.
3.69
34k+
🥐 French Existentialism💌 Secret Admirer💔 Deceptive Partner
Identity Summary
Identity 87%
A woman who believes men no longer see her receives anonymous letters insisting she is beautiful.
by Milan Kundera 1997
3.69
34k+ ratings
🥐 French Existentialism💌 Secret Admirer💔 Deceptive Partner
Huis clos
by Jean-Paul Sartre • 1944
Three strangers arrive in hell expecting torture. Instead they get a drawing room and each other.
4.11
47k+
🎭 Absurdist Theatre🇫🇷 French Existentialism💀 Philosophical Afterlife
Huis clos Summary
Huis clos 87%
Three strangers arrive in hell expecting torture. Instead they get a drawing room and each other.
by Jean-Paul Sartre 1944
4.11
47k+ ratings
🎭 Absurdist Theatre🇫🇷 French Existentialism💀 Philosophical Afterlife
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
by Thomas Ligotti • 2011
Nature's worst mistake was making you self-aware. The only logical response is to stop reproducing.
4.01
10k+
🖤 Philosophical Pessimism🚫 Antinatalism🧠 Consciousness Studies
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race Summary
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race 87%
Nature's worst mistake was making you self-aware. The only logical response is to stop reproducing.
by Thomas Ligotti 2011
4.01
10k+ ratings
🖤 Philosophical Pessimism🚫 Antinatalism🧠 Consciousness Studies
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
by Walker Percy • 1961
A New Orleans stockbroker drifts through pleasure and routine, searching for a life that feels true.
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31k+
🎭 Southern Gothic🤔 Existential Novel🎬 Disaffected Narrator
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy Summary
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy 87%
A New Orleans stockbroker drifts through pleasure and routine, searching for a life that feels true.
by Walker Percy 1961
3.64
31k+ ratings
🎭 Southern Gothic🤔 Existential Novel🎬 Disaffected Narrator
Stuck
by Anneli Rufus • 2008
More freedom than ever, more stuck than ever. The cages are invisible, and you built them.
3.03
386
🧱 Personal Stagnation🏛️ Cultural Critique🚪 Life Transitions
Stuck Summary
Stuck 87%
More freedom than ever, more stuck than ever. The cages are invisible, and you built them.
by Anneli Rufus 2008
3.03
386 ratings
🧱 Personal Stagnation🏛️ Cultural Critique🚪 Life Transitions
The Myth of Sisyphus
by Albert Camus • 1942
Indifferent universe, no cosmic meaning: why not end it? Camus answers with Sisyphus.
4.17
99k+
🪨 Absurdism🤔 Existentialist Thought🏛️ Continental Philosophy
The Myth of Sisyphus Summary
The Myth of Sisyphus 87%
Indifferent universe, no cosmic meaning: why not end it? Camus answers with Sisyphus.
by Albert Camus 1942
4.17
99k+ ratings
🪨 Absurdism🤔 Existentialist Thought🏛️ Continental Philosophy
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire • 1857
Poems that find ecstasy in the gutter, hold you responsible, and turned despair into an art form.
4.19
82k+
🥀 French Poetry🖤 Symbolist Poetry🌸 Beauty And Decay
The Flowers of Evil Summary
The Flowers of Evil 87%
Poems that find ecstasy in the gutter, hold you responsible, and turned despair into an art form.
by Charles Baudelaire 1857
4.19
82k+ ratings
🥀 French Poetry🖤 Symbolist Poetry🌸 Beauty And Decay
Capitalist Realism
by Mark Fisher • 2009
Capitalism won by making its alternatives unthinkable, and its dysfunctions feel like facts of life.
4.21
41k+
🏭 Late Capitalism📕 Marxist Theory📜 End Of History
Capitalist Realism Summary
Capitalist Realism 87%
Capitalism won by making its alternatives unthinkable, and its dysfunctions feel like facts of life.
by Mark Fisher 2009
4.21
41k+ ratings
🏭 Late Capitalism📕 Marxist Theory📜 End Of History
The Age of Defeat
by Colin Wilson • 1959
Why the hero vanished: affluence, conformity, and philosophy all taught us we don't matter.
4.00
59
🧠 Existentialism📰 Cultural Criticism⚔️ The Heroic Ideal
The Age of Defeat Summary
The Age of Defeat 87%
Why the hero vanished: affluence, conformity, and philosophy all taught us we don't matter.
by Colin Wilson 1959
4.00
59 ratings
🧠 Existentialism📰 Cultural Criticism⚔️ The Heroic Ideal
The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness
by Gary Cox • 2011
You are free in a way you never asked for. This is what that actually costs.
4.12
121
🌍 Continental Philosophy🚶 Existentialism🔍 Phenomenology
The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness Summary
The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness 87%
You are free in a way you never asked for. This is what that actually costs.
by Gary Cox 2011
4.12
121 ratings
🌍 Continental Philosophy🚶 Existentialism🔍 Phenomenology
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
by Franz Kafka • 2023
Kafka's diaries: the body hatred, the office dread, the nights his fiction tried to escape.
4.28
577
📖 Literary Diaries🎨 Creative Struggle🌙 Dream Journaling
The Diaries of Franz Kafka Summary
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 87%
Kafka's diaries: the body hatred, the office dread, the nights his fiction tried to escape.
by Franz Kafka 2023
4.28
577 ratings
📖 Literary Diaries🎨 Creative Struggle🌙 Dream Journaling
The Burnout Society
by Byung-Chul Han • 2010
We replaced discipline with achievement, and it didn't set us free. It made us sick.
3.85
31k+
📖 Critical Theory🏛️ Continental Philosophy🏥 Social Pathology
The Burnout Society Summary
The Burnout Society 87%
We replaced discipline with achievement, and it didn't set us free. It made us sick.
by Byung-Chul Han 2010
3.85
31k+ ratings
📖 Critical Theory🏛️ Continental Philosophy🏥 Social Pathology
Religion and the Rebel
by Colin Wilson • 1957
The rebel craving spiritual intensity is not broken: he is civilization's healthy warning symptom.
4.08
249
📚 Cultural Criticism📜 Existentialist Thought🧠 Consciousness Expansion
Religion and the Rebel Summary
Religion and the Rebel 87%
The rebel craving spiritual intensity is not broken: he is civilization's healthy warning symptom.
by Colin Wilson 1957
4.08
249 ratings
📚 Cultural Criticism📜 Existentialist Thought🧠 Consciousness Expansion
La felicidad
by Gabriel Rolón • 2023
The happiness mandate is backfiring. A psychoanalyst on why sadness is not the enemy.
3.94
2k+
🎭 Critique Of Happiness🛋️ Psychoanalysis🪞 Lacanian Psychoanalysis
La felicidad Summary
La felicidad 87%
The happiness mandate is backfiring. A psychoanalyst on why sadness is not the enemy.
by Gabriel Rolón 2023
3.94
2k+ ratings
🎭 Critique Of Happiness🛋️ Psychoanalysis🪞 Lacanian Psychoanalysis
On the Suffering of the World
by Arthur Schopenhauer • 1850
Happiness is only the temporary absence of pain; suffering, not joy, is life's actual engine.
3.86
3k+
🌑 Philosophical Pessimism🧠 Continental Philosophy⚡ Metaphysics Of Will
On the Suffering of the World Summary
On the Suffering of the World 87%
Happiness is only the temporary absence of pain; suffering, not joy, is life's actual engine.
by Arthur Schopenhauer 1850
3.86
3k+ ratings
🌑 Philosophical Pessimism🧠 Continental Philosophy⚡ Metaphysics Of Will
Satantango
by László Krasznahorkai • 1985
A crumbling Hungarian farm, endless rain, a dead con man the villagers need to believe.
4.06
17k+
🏰 Hungarian Literature🔨 Communist-Era Fiction🎭 False Messiah
Satantango Summary
Satantango 87%
A crumbling Hungarian farm, endless rain, a dead con man the villagers need to believe.
by László Krasznahorkai 1985
4.06
17k+ ratings
🏰 Hungarian Literature🔨 Communist-Era Fiction🎭 False Messiah
All Things are Possible
by Lev Shestov • 1905
Reason is a trap, morality is vengeance, and the outcast knows what philosophy will not say.
4.09
314
🧠 Existential Thought🇷🇺 Russian Philosophy🔍 Critique Of Reason
All Things are Possible Summary
All Things are Possible 87%
Reason is a trap, morality is vengeance, and the outcast knows what philosophy will not say.
by Lev Shestov 1905
4.09
314 ratings
🧠 Existential Thought🇷🇺 Russian Philosophy🔍 Critique Of Reason
El Hombre Light
by Enrique Rojas • 1992
When everything is permitted and nothing matters, a new kind of person emerges: informed and hollow.
3.12
535
🏛️ Cultural Criticism🧭 Moral Psychology🛒 Consumerism Critique
El Hombre Light Summary
El Hombre Light 87%
When everything is permitted and nothing matters, a new kind of person emerges: informed and hollow.
by Enrique Rojas 1992
3.12
535 ratings
🏛️ Cultural Criticism🧭 Moral Psychology🛒 Consumerism Critique
Midlife
by Kieran Setiya • 2017
A philosopher's diagnosis of the midlife crisis: you're chasing goals when you need meaning.
3.56
3k+
🏛️ Applied Philosophy🔄 Midlife Crisis💀 Mortality Acceptance
Midlife Summary
Midlife 87%
A philosopher's diagnosis of the midlife crisis: you're chasing goals when you need meaning.
by Kieran Setiya 2017
3.56
3k+ ratings
🏛️ Applied Philosophy🔄 Midlife Crisis💀 Mortality Acceptance
Atomised by Houellebecq, Michel, Wynne, Frank New Edition
by Michel Houellebecq • 1998
Two estranged half-brothers search for connection in a Europe engineering its own replacement.
3.80
52k+
👬 Estranged Brothers🖤 Transgressive Fiction💔 Sexual Despair
Atomised by Houellebecq, Michel, Wynne, Frank New Edition Summary
Atomised by Houellebecq, Michel, Wynne, Frank New Edition 87%
Two estranged half-brothers search for connection in a Europe engineering its own replacement.
by Michel Houellebecq 1998
3.80
52k+ ratings
👬 Estranged Brothers🖤 Transgressive Fiction💔 Sexual Despair
The Joy of Missing Out
by Svend Brinkmann • 2017
Why the good life requires saying no: a philosopher's case for self-restraint over accumulation.
3.61
1k+
🛑 Self-Restraint📉 Hedonic Adaptation🏛️ Modern Stoicism
The Joy of Missing Out Summary
The Joy of Missing Out 87%
Why the good life requires saying no: a philosopher's case for self-restraint over accumulation.
by Svend Brinkmann 2017
3.61
1k+ ratings
🛑 Self-Restraint📉 Hedonic Adaptation🏛️ Modern Stoicism
The Art of Life
by Zygmunt Bauman • 2008
Getting richer made us shoppers, not happier, and forced endless self-reinvention without ethics.
3.76
872
🧠 Continental Philosophy🌊 Late Modernity😊 Happiness Studies
The Art of Life Summary
The Art of Life 87%
Getting richer made us shoppers, not happier, and forced endless self-reinvention without ethics.
by Zygmunt Bauman 2008
3.76
872 ratings
🧠 Continental Philosophy🌊 Late Modernity😊 Happiness Studies
Murphy
by Samuel Beckett • 1938
Strapped into his rocking chair, Murphy seeks a silence where bodies and lovers cannot follow.
3.80
7k+
🖋️ Modernist Fiction🎭 Absurdist Comedy🧠 Mind Body Split
Murphy Summary
Murphy 87%
Strapped into his rocking chair, Murphy seeks a silence where bodies and lovers cannot follow.
by Samuel Beckett 1938
3.80
7k+ ratings
🖋️ Modernist Fiction🎭 Absurdist Comedy🧠 Mind Body Split
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
by Franz Kafka • 1948
An insurance clerk fills notebooks at night, dissecting himself with precision that still stings.
4.22
260
📓 Literary Diaries✍️ Creative Struggle🕳️ Existential Despair
The Diaries of Franz Kafka Summary
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 87%
An insurance clerk fills notebooks at night, dissecting himself with precision that still stings.
by Franz Kafka 1948
4.22
260 ratings
📓 Literary Diaries✍️ Creative Struggle🕳️ Existential Despair
Why Does the World Exist?
by Jim Holt • 2011
Physics, philosophy, and theology each claim to know why anything exists. None of them agree.
3.81
7k+
❓ Existential Questions🕳️ Nothingness🔭 Cosmology
Why Does the World Exist? Summary
Why Does the World Exist? 87%
Physics, philosophy, and theology each claim to know why anything exists. None of them agree.
by Jim Holt 2011
3.81
7k+ ratings
❓ Existential Questions🕳️ Nothingness🔭 Cosmology
Life for Sale
by Yukio Mishima • 1968
After a failed suicide, a copywriter sells his life. His first client: seduce a wife.
3.70
16k+
💀 Existential Crisis🌌 Surreal Journey🎭 Dark Satire
Life for Sale Summary
Life for Sale 87%
After a failed suicide, a copywriter sells his life. His first client: seduce a wife.
by Yukio Mishima 1968
3.70
16k+ ratings
💀 Existential Crisis🌌 Surreal Journey🎭 Dark Satire
Embracing Your Limitations
by Lawrence Mooney • 2022
Self-help feeds on your dissatisfaction. The exit: stop chasing dreams and accept your limits.
3.29
82
🚫 Anti-Self-Help🤗 Self-Acceptance📉 Lowered Expectations
Embracing Your Limitations Summary
Embracing Your Limitations 87%
Self-help feeds on your dissatisfaction. The exit: stop chasing dreams and accept your limits.
by Lawrence Mooney 2022
3.29
82 ratings
🚫 Anti-Self-Help🤗 Self-Acceptance📉 Lowered Expectations
The Death of Ivan Ilych
by Leo Tolstoy • 1886
He lived for status, propriety, and approval. Dying alone, he learns too late what actually matters.
4.14
231k+
🖤 Existential Novella📖 Russian Realism🕯️ Deathbed Reckoning
The Death of Ivan Ilych Summary
The Death of Ivan Ilych 87%
He lived for status, propriety, and approval. Dying alone, he learns too late what actually matters.
by Leo Tolstoy 1886
4.14
231k+ ratings
🖤 Existential Novella📖 Russian Realism🕯️ Deathbed Reckoning
The Lost Art of Doing Nothing
by Maartje Willems • 2021
Your burnout needs less hustle, more staring out windows. The Dutch way of doing nothing.
3.18
2k+
🐌 Slow Living🧘 Doing Nothing🛑 Anti-Hustle
The Lost Art of Doing Nothing Summary
The Lost Art of Doing Nothing 87%
Your burnout needs less hustle, more staring out windows. The Dutch way of doing nothing.
by Maartje Willems 2021
3.18
2k+ ratings
🐌 Slow Living🧘 Doing Nothing🛑 Anti-Hustle
Immortality
by Milan Kundera • 1990
A novelist sees a woman wave at a pool. He invents Agnes, who yearns to disappear.
4.14
43k+
📖 Philosophical Novel🏛️ Fame And Posterity🎭 Image And Reality
Immortality Summary
Immortality 87%
A novelist sees a woman wave at a pool. He invents Agnes, who yearns to disappear.
by Milan Kundera 1990
4.14
43k+ ratings
📖 Philosophical Novel🏛️ Fame And Posterity🎭 Image And Reality
Freedom and Destiny
by Rollo May • 1981
The struggle with limits, not their absence, is the source of human freedom and creativity.
4.24
299
🧠 Humanistic Psychology🤔 Existential Philosophy🔗 Freedom And Limits
Freedom and Destiny Summary
Freedom and Destiny 87%
The struggle with limits, not their absence, is the source of human freedom and creativity.
by Rollo May 1981
4.24
299 ratings
🧠 Humanistic Psychology🤔 Existential Philosophy🔗 Freedom And Limits
Existentialism
by Robert C. Solomon • 1974
No fixed human nature, only your choices. Each one invents you and implicates everyone else.
4.07
384
📜 Existentialism🧠 Continental Philosophy🕊️ Radical Freedom
Existentialism Summary
Existentialism 87%
No fixed human nature, only your choices. Each one invents you and implicates everyone else.
by Robert C. Solomon 1974
4.07
384 ratings
📜 Existentialism🧠 Continental Philosophy🕊️ Radical Freedom
Le Rivage des Syrtes
by Julien Gracq • 1951
On a dead sea, a restless young officer guards a war three centuries silent.
4.01
2k+
📖 Allegorical Fiction⏳ Endless Waiting🚫 Forbidden Frontier
Le Rivage des Syrtes Summary
Le Rivage des Syrtes 87%
On a dead sea, a restless young officer guards a war three centuries silent.
by Julien Gracq 1951
4.01
2k+ ratings
📖 Allegorical Fiction⏳ Endless Waiting🚫 Forbidden Frontier
Breaking Bad and Philosophy
by David R. Koepsell • 2012
A philosophy class uses Walter White to dissect moral rot, freedom, and the American Dream.
3.30
274
🎬 Media Philosophy📺 Tv Criticism⚖️ Applied Ethics
Breaking Bad and Philosophy Summary
Breaking Bad and Philosophy 87%
A philosophy class uses Walter White to dissect moral rot, freedom, and the American Dream.
by David R. Koepsell 2012
3.30
274 ratings
🎬 Media Philosophy📺 Tv Criticism⚖️ Applied Ethics
Very Little...Almost Nothing
by Simon Critchley • 2004
Nihilism is the norm after God. Creative resistance through literature is how meaning gets remade.
3.89
132
🌍 Continental Philosophy💀 Death Of God Theology📖 Literary Modernism
Very Little...Almost Nothing Summary
Very Little...Almost Nothing 87%
Nihilism is the norm after God. Creative resistance through literature is how meaning gets remade.
by Simon Critchley 2004
3.89
132 ratings
🌍 Continental Philosophy💀 Death Of God Theology📖 Literary Modernism
Being and Time
by Martin Heidegger • 1927
Reality's biggest question has been forgotten: start with the anxious, mortal creature who asks it.
4.05
28k+
🌍 Continental Philosophy💀 Existentialism🏠 Lived Experience
Being and Time Summary
Being and Time 87%
Reality's biggest question has been forgotten: start with the anxious, mortal creature who asks it.
by Martin Heidegger 1927
4.05
28k+ ratings
🌍 Continental Philosophy💀 Existentialism🏠 Lived Experience
The Crisis of Narration
by Byung-Chul Han • 2023
We drown in information but starve for stories. A philosophy of what happens when narration dies.
3.91
3k+
🏛️ Continental Philosophy📰 Cultural Criticism🔍 Critical Theory
The Crisis of Narration Summary
The Crisis of Narration 86%
We drown in information but starve for stories. A philosophy of what happens when narration dies.
by Byung-Chul Han 2023
3.91
3k+ ratings
🏛️ Continental Philosophy📰 Cultural Criticism🔍 Critical Theory
Rethinking Depression
by Eric Maisel • 2011
Sadness isn't a sickness. It's a summons to build a life that means something to you.
3.40
118
🏥 Mental Health Skepticism📚 Existential Psychology💭 Meaning Making
Rethinking Depression Summary
Rethinking Depression 86%
Sadness isn't a sickness. It's a summons to build a life that means something to you.
by Eric Maisel 2011
3.40
118 ratings
🏥 Mental Health Skepticism📚 Existential Psychology💭 Meaning Making
A Philosophy of Loneliness
by Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen • 2015
Loneliness rivals smoking in damage, yet calling it an epidemic misses the point entirely.
3.69
2k+
💭 Philosophy Of Emotions🧩 Existential Philosophy👥 Sociology Of Loneliness
A Philosophy of Loneliness Summary
A Philosophy of Loneliness 86%
Loneliness rivals smoking in damage, yet calling it an epidemic misses the point entirely.
by Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen 2015
3.69
2k+ ratings
💭 Philosophy Of Emotions🧩 Existential Philosophy👥 Sociology Of Loneliness
Being and Nothingness
by Jean-Paul Sartre • 1943
Consciousness is a hole in being. What pours through is freedom, and it terrifies us.
3.99
35k+
🖤 Existentialism🔍 Phenomenology🏛️ Ontology
Being and Nothingness Summary
Being and Nothingness 86%
Consciousness is a hole in being. What pours through is freedom, and it terrifies us.
by Jean-Paul Sartre 1943
3.99
35k+ ratings
🖤 Existentialism🔍 Phenomenology🏛️ Ontology
The Outsider
by Colin Wilson • 1956
The outsider feels reality too sharply to accept ordinary life. That crisis destroys, or awakens.
4.03
5k+
🧠 Existential Philosophy📚 Literary Criticism🏚️ Modern Alienation
The Outsider Summary
The Outsider 86%
The outsider feels reality too sharply to accept ordinary life. That crisis destroys, or awakens.
by Colin Wilson 1956
4.03
5k+ ratings
🧠 Existential Philosophy📚 Literary Criticism🏚️ Modern Alienation
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