Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre / edited, with an introduction, prefaces, and new translations by Walter Kaufmann.

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre / Kaufmann --
Notes from underground / Dostoevsky --
On himself / Kierkegaard. On his mission; On his works; On his mode of existence; "That individual" --
"Live Dangerously" / Nietzsche. "The challenge of every great philosophy"; "The gay science"; On free death; The beginning of The will to power; From Ecce homo --
The notes of Malte Laurids Brigge / Rilke --
Three parables / Kafka. An imperial message; Before the law; Couriers --
Existenzphilosophie / Jaspers. On my philosophy; Kierkegaard and Nietzsche; The encompassing --
The way back into the ground of metaphysics / Heidegger --
Existentialism / Sartre. The wall; Self-deception; Portrait of the antisemite; Existentialism is a humanism --
The myth of Sisyphus / Camus.

Existentialism is perhaps the most misunderstood of modern philosophic positions-- misunderstood by reason of its broad popularity and general unfamiliarity with its origins, representatives, and principles. Existential thinking did not originate with Jean-Paul Sartre. It has prior religious, literary, and philosophic origins. In its narrowest formulation, it is a metaphysical doctrine, arguing as it does that any definition of man's essence must follow, not precede, an estimation of his existence. In Heidegger, it affords a view of Being in its totality; in Kierkegaard, an approach to that inwardness indispensable to authentic religious experience; for Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Rilke the existential situation bears the stamp of modern man's alienation, uprootedness, and absurdity; to Sartre it has vast ethical and political implications. This book contains only complete selections or entire works by the major thinkers.--From publisher description.