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- Although the most popular voices of this movement were French, most notably Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as compatriots such as Albert Camus, Gabriel Marcel, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the conceptual groundwork of the movement was laid much earlier in the nineteenth century by pioneers like Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche and twentieth-century German philosophers like Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Karl Jaspers as well as prominent Spanish intellectuals José...
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Jan 6, 2023 · In their conceptions of “the public” (Kierkegaard), “the herd” (Nietzsche), and “the They” (Heidegger), existentialists offer powerful critiques of the leveled down and routinized ways of being that characterize mass society.
Existentialism is a form of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence. Existentialist philosophers explore questions related to the meaning, purpose, and value of human existence.
Mar 26, 2022 · Few philosophers have been as famous in their own life-time as Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80). Many thousands of Parisians packed into his public lecture, Existentialism is a Humanism, towards the end of 1945 and the culmination of World War 2.
Rooted in the writings of existentialist thinkers such as Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir, existentialism challenges conventional notions of meaning, identity, and morality, inviting individuals to confront the fundamental questions of existence and to embrace the complexities of human life with c...
Sep 28, 2023 · Most philosophers consider Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) to be the first existentialist philosopher. While it is true that the first to use the term was Jean-Paul Sartre, it was Kierkegaard who opposed Hegelian idealism and built upon various elements taken up by the existentialist thought, such as anguish and loneliness.
Albert Camus ( / kæmˈuː / [2] kam-OO; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ⓘ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, [3] and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history.
Existentialism is a philosophical movement that believes that the human existence cannot be completely described simply by rational, idealistic or scientific terms and that individual freedom, responsibility and experience are what define it. At its essence, existentialism is a rejection of the idea of predetermined essence or universal truths.
