Abstract

This essay explores the existential philosophy that exists in Chuck Palahniuck s first novel Fight Club 1996 Surprisingly there has been little discussion of this novel s connection to Jean-Paul Sartre s notion of the look and the three patterns of bad faith in Being and Nothingness nor of Camus s discussion of calculated culpability in The Just Assassins this has largely been overlooked and presents a creative opportunity to better interpret Fight Club its concomitant existential analysis and the continuing fight between Camus and Sartre s political stances not to mention the interpretive territory of existentialist humor