HOW TO BE AN EXISTENTIALIST

Or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and
Stop Making Excuses
By Gary Cox

Gary Cox has just put into context the perfect philosophical book in a layman language, the language we all can comprehend. This tiny smart book with only 115 pages is mainly directed to those of us who have blurry vision in the field of Existentialism. Cox make fun of the reputation existentialism has for being gloomy and pessimistic, exposing it what it really is – an honest, uplifting and potentially life-changing philosophy! Dr.Cox couldn’t have been concise and clearer than this.

The author also is criticizing our contemporary excuse culture, urging us to face the hard existential truths of the human condition. He uncompromisingly counsel us to become tougher and more dignified, less grumbling and irresponsible, to stop chasing the rainbows and making excuses and instead to get a grip and get real. By revealing that we are all inescapably free and responsible – ‘condemned to be free’, as Sartre says – he aims to empower the reader with a sharp sense that we are each the master of our own destiny.

Gary Cox wrote his PhD on Sartre. He is the author of several books on Sartre and existentialism. He lives in Somerset where he teaches philosophy and writes.