A valuable survey of this topic is

Becoming a Self: A Reading of Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific

, by Merold Westphal (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1996). Individualizing choice is a theme of Sartre’s play

The Flies

in

No Exit and Three Other Plays (New York: Vintage, 1989). Albert Camus’s

The Outsider (London: Penguin, 1970), translated in America as

The Stranger , is a classic study of becoming an existentialist individual. Of the many existential themes not treated here, 'alienation’ is certainly a major one. To fill this gap, consider Richard Schmitt’s

Alienation and Freedom (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003). An excellent biography of Nietzsche is provided by Rüdiger Safranski,

Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography (New York: Norton, 2002).

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