Includes selections by Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and Ralph Ellison.

Introduction / Gordon Marino -- Fear and trembling : Problema I / Soren Kierkegaard -- Fear and trembling : Problema II / Soren Kierkegaard -- The sickness unto death : A. Despair is the sickness unto death / Soren Kierkegaard -- The sickness unto death : B. The universality of this sickness (despair) / Soren Kierkegaard -- The sickness unto death : C. The forms of this sickness (despair) / Soren Kierkegaard -- On the geneaology of morals : First essay : "Good and evil," "Good and bad" / Friedrich Nietzsche -- On the geneaology of morals : Second essay : "Guilt," "Bad conscience," and the like / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Notes from the underground : Part I : Underground / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov : The grand inquisitor / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr / Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo -- Being and time : The possible being-a-whole of Da-sein and being-toward death / Martin Heidegger -- Existentialism / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Being and nothingness : Self-negation / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Being and nothingness : The encounter with the other / Jean-Paul Sartre -- The ethics of ambiguity : Ambiguity / Simone de Beauvoir -- The myth of Sisyphus : An absurd reasoning / Albert Camus -- The myth of Sisyphus : The myth of Sisyphus / Albert Camus -- Invisible man : Prologue / Ralph Ellison.