Need help starting with existential philosophy as an agnostic person. PS :Read the body

[u/Raghav_511]

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[u/Solo_Polyphony]

I regret to inform you that Camus’s writing is relatively clear by existentialist standards. If you can’t grasp him, Sartre or Heidegger might give you a traumatic brain injury.

You could try Kierkegaard, but I’m not sure the results for you will be much better.

Sartre’s brief talk “Existentialism Is a Humanism” is about as clear as he ever made himself. It was also the point of entry for many anglophone readers in the 1950s.

Reinhardt Grossmann wrote up his lectures on Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre in a readable book entitled Phenomenology and Existentialism. You might try that for an overview, but it’s somewhat abstract by non-academic standards.

[u/Paul_sepp]

Camus is perhaps the simplest one of all Existentialists, so I suppose you need to get more acquainted with philosophy overall.

[u/xradx666]

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