Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd

A research study on how Jean-Paul Sartre understands the human condition. It covers his life and key ideas like freedom, anguish, bad faith and responsibility, with a full bibliography that includes Simone de Beauvoir.

Research Repository

An honors thesis that reads Christopher Nolan's Batman films through Sartre, Beauvoir, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. A fun, accessible way to see existentialist ideas at work in popular culture.

Kaylin Marie Walker

A short, clear thesis on Simone de Beauvoir's ethics of ambiguity. It explains how she builds a morality of freedom and responsibility from existentialism, and where her thinking parts ways with Sartre's.

Ramani Rodriguez-Apple

An open access study that brings Sartre, Beauvoir and Camus into dialogue with Hannah Arendt to rethink how we make political choices. It shows how existentialist ideas of freedom and responsibility help with real political dilemmas.

Maša Mrovlje