Why existentialism? -- Søren Kierkegaard : the self against the system -- Sartre and Heidegger : the free resolve -- Sartre and Heidegger : the self and other selves -- French existentialism and politics : the new revolutionary -- Jaspers and Marcel : the new revelation -- Postscript
Originally published in 1948 under title: Dreadful freedom, a critique of existentialism