The Existentialists Survival Guide, Gordon Marino
The Existentialists Survival Guide, Gordon Marino
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The Existentialist's Survival Guide
How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

Author: Gordon Marino

Narrator: Joe Knezevich

Unabridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/24/2018

Synopsis

Existentialism offers enduring lessons and insight on how to understand ourselves and improve our lives.Your existence is not the result of a pre-determined set of events, it’s the direct result of your thinking and your actions, and therefore, according to Soren Kierkegaard, Frederick Nietzsche, Albert Camus, and other Existentialist philosophers, you have the freedom to control the outcome of your existence—sophisticated ""philosophy meets psychology"" self-help for the twenty-first-century.As Kierkegaard and his ilk made clear in their respective works, human beings are moody creatures. Rather than understanding moods such as anxiety and depression as afflictions that can only be treated with a pill, the Existentialists regard these troublesome feelings as instructive, something revealing about what it means to be human. The Existentialists believed that how we negotiate our emotional ups-and-downs plays an important hand in the lives we sculpt for ourselves.While offering listeners a useful primer on Existentialism as an animating body of thought, Marino distills and delivers the life-altering and, in some cases, life-saving insights Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Camus, and other Existentialists articulate for becoming more emotionally attuned human beings. Enhancing our sense of meaning in the midst of an uncertain world, Marino interjects gripping anecdotes from his own experiences to demonstrate how we can use existentialist thought to ignite truly transformative experiences.

About Gordon Marino

Gordon Marino is a professor of philosophy and the director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College. He is the author of Kierkegaard in the Present Age, coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, and editor of Basic Writings of Existentialism, Ethics: The Essential Writings, and The Quotable Kierkegaard. A veteran boxing trainer, Marino is also an award-winning boxing writer for The Wall Street Journal and other outlets.  His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and many other domestic and international publications. He lives in Northfield, Minnesota.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on January 21, 2024

I’ll say at the start that I enjoyed reading this book, partly because I’m an easy sell for the intellectual self-help genre –the book could easily be called “How Kierkegaard and the Existentialists Can Save Your Life”—and also because the author (for the most part) deftly navigates around the peril......more

Goodreads review by Jim on March 24, 2018

This was a challenging read for me, evidenced by the length of time it took. I kept reading a few pages, setting it aside, digesting, reading a few more... The Existentialists were obscurants; I needed some help (I started listening to The Teaching Company's Great Courses lecture series "No Excuses:......more

Goodreads review by Sid on July 06, 2018

Marino summarizes the classic philosophical works with utmost ease. Reading his book made me want to sit in on his lectures. This is not so much a self help book, as it is a summary and reflection on the existential thinkers of our time. I couldn't put the book down and the bibliography has inspired......more

Goodreads review by Edward on December 25, 2020

Near the end of this book, Marino uses an apt metaphor, that reading about Kierkegaard, Sartre, Camus Nietsche, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, particularly Kierkegaard, is like mining for ore. There are veins of particularly rich meaning, and others that are more meager, and the accumulation that comes out o......more

Goodreads review by Beauregard on October 29, 2020

Usually a philosopher author never shows you that they are human, flawed or they have just as much dread, angst and befuddlement as the rest of us do while they are charting their way through this life and searching for their special blend of authenticity as this philosopher author did. The most inte......more

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