The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

Existentialism offers enduring lessons and insight on how to understand ourselves and improve our lives.Your existence is not the result of a predetermined 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 21st 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 be treated only 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.