What's in a name? -- What does it mean to be? -- What does it take to be an existentialist? -- What are existentialist questions? -- How did existentialism start? -- Pascal's wager -- What should I believe? -- Kierkegaard : the age of anxiety -- The absurdity of faith -- Kierkegaard's existentialist teaching -- Kierkegaard's hardest thought -- Nietzsche : the Darwinian age -- Beyond good and evil -- Is God dead? -- How existentialism can go wrong -- Is there an Islamist existentialism? -- Making a cult of experience -- A parable on suicide -- Husserl : the midnight of modernity -- A meditation on consciousness -- The life-world of consciousness -- Heidegger : the maverick philosopher -- The question of being -- A brief lesson on metaphysics -- Technology beyond good and evil -- A therapy of being -- Sartre : impresario of existentialism -- Freedom and the nothing of consciousness -- Freedom, the atheist's God -- What is time? -- Is insanity a loss of consciousness? -- Existentialism's refusal of the Freudian unconscious -- Binswanger, the existentialist Freud -- Fanon : on race and existential deviation -- There is no essential woman -- Is freedom the end of history? -- Existentialism and the future present -- Is there an existentialist geography?