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Title: Read the texts instead
Review: Like other readers who gave this anthology negative reviews, I was frustrated by the subjectivity guiding the selections and by the editing of many of the passages. I found a frequent disconnect between what I knew of the philosophers and what seemed to be in the passages. Having come to existentialism through literature, I was eager to explore it from the philosophers' point of view, but I honestly found myself searching in vain through many of the selections for something that I recognized as existentialist.Another issue I have with this book is that the texts are given in chronological order. It seems to make more sense to start with an understanding of Sartre and then to move back to works that appear in retrospect to contain existentialist themes or ideas.
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