No Excuses : Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
(Book, DVD)

PT. 1. lecture 1, What is existentialism? ; lecture 2, Albert Camus, The stranger, part I ; lecture 3, Camus, The stranger, part II ; lecture 4, Camus, The myth of Sisyphus ; lecture 5, Camus, The plague and The fall ; lecture 6, Camus, The fall, part II ; lecture 7, Søren Kierkegaard, "On becoming a Christian" ; lecture 8, Kierkegaard on subjective truth ; lecture 9, Kierkegaard's existential dialectic ; lecture 10, Friedrich Nietzsche on nihilism and the death of God ; lecture 11, Nietzsche, the "immoralist" ; lecture 12, Nietzsche on freedom, fate, and responsibility

PT. 2. lecture 13, Nietzsche, The Übermensch and The will to power ; lecture 14, Three grand inquisitors, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hesse ; lecture 15, Husserl, Heidegger, and phenomenology ; lecture 16, Heidegger on the world and the self ; lecture 17, Heidegger on "authenticity" ; lecture 18, Jean-Paul Sartre at war ; lecture 19, Sartre on emotions and responsibility ; lecture 20, Sartre's phenomenology ; lecture 21, Sartre on "bad faith" ; lecture 22, Sartre's Being-for-others and No exit ; lecture 23, Sartre on sex and love ; lecture 24, From existentialism to postmodernism.

Robert Solomon ; producer, James Blandford.