Sartre Nietzsche Heidegger Kierkegaard de Beauvoir Merleau-Ponty and Camus. These were
some of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century and the key existentialist
thinkers. This Very Short Introduction provides an accessible account of the existentialist
movement and of the themes of individuality free will and personal responsibility which make
it a 'philosophy as a way of life'.
