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Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Jonathan Judaken Part I: (Trans)National Contexts 1. Russian Existentialism, or Existential Russianism, by Val Vinokur 2. German Existentialism and the Persistence of Metaphysics: Weber, Jaspers, Heidegger, by Peter E. Gordon 3. Sisyphus's Progeny: Existentialism in France, by Jonathan Judaken 4. "To Punch Through 'Pasteboard Masks'?": American Existentialism, by George Cotkin 5. Angst Across the Channel: Existentialism in Britain, by Martin Woessner 6. Existentialisms in the Hispanic and Latin American Worlds: El Quixote and its Existential Children Part II: Existentialism and Religion 7. Fear and Trembling and the Paradox of Christian Existentialism, by George Pattison 8. Jewish Co-Existentialism: Being with the Other, by Paul Mendes-Flohr 9. Camus the Unbeliever: Living Without God, by Ronald Aronson Part III: Migrations 10. Anxiety and Secularization: Soren Kierkegaard and the Twentieth-Century Invention of Existentialism, by Samuel Moyn 11. Rethinking the 'Existential' Nietzsche in German: Lowith, Jaspers, Heidegger, by Charles Bambach Charles Bambach 12. Situating Frantz Fanon's Account of Black Experience, by Robert Bernasconi 13. Simone de Beauvoir in her Times and Ours: The Second Sex and its Legacy in French Feminist Thought, by Debra Bergoffen 14. The "Letter on Humanism": Reading Heidegger in France, by Ethan Kleinberg List of Contributors Index
