Core Existential & Theological Readings (Kierkegaard, Camus, Dostoevsky)

• Søren Kierkegaard – Fear and Trembling (read first)
• Søren Kierkegaard – Either/Or (especially Part I: The Aesthetic)
• Søren Kierkegaard – The Sickness Unto Death
• Søren Kierkegaard – Works of Love
• Albert Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus (reread optional)
• Albert Camus – The Plague
• Albert Camus – The Rebel
• Fyodor Dostoevsky – Notes from Underground (already read)
• Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brothers Karamazov (focus on Ivan and “The Grand Inquisitor”)

Moral Judgment and Responsibility

• Hannah Arendt – Eichmann in Jerusalem
• Hannah Arendt – Responsibility and Judgment (essays)
• Hannah Arendt – The Human Condition

Attention, Grace, and Suffering

• Simone Weil – Gravity and Grace

Other Voices on the Moral and Interior Life

• Iris Murdoch – The Sovereignty of Good
• Zadie Smith – Feel Free (selected essays)
• C.S. Lewis – A Grief Observed