Rethinking Political Judgement: Arendt and Existentialism

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

A doctoral study that clarifies what Camus meant by the absurd and what it means for morality and politics. It also reviews how Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre approached absurdity before him.

Matthew Hamilton Bowker