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Walter Kaufmann: Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (Introduction) Kevin Aho: Existentialism: An Introduction Maurice Friedman: The Worlds of Existentialism David Cogswell: Existentialism for Beginners Steven Crowell: The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism Robert Solomon: Phenomenology and Existentialism II. Meaning, Despair, and Faith
Jan 11, 2016 · Abstract. The term Existentialism is coined by the Danish theologian and philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. According to Soren Existentialism “is a rejection of all purely abstract...
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Existentialism is the study of existence. If you take existence to be everything that exists — such as chairs and tables, people and llamas — all philosophy, science, and religion would seem to have the same subject. But existentialism isn’t the study of everything that exists; it’s the study of exis-tence itself — the study of what ...
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traditional philosophy’ and ‘not a school of thought nor reducible to any set of tenets’ (1956: 11). Solomon ends his introduction claiming that ‘nothing could be further from the existential attitude than attempts to define existentialism, except perhaps a discussion about the attempts to define existentialism’ (1974: xix).
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Jan 6, 2023 · 1. Nihilism and the Crisis of Modernity. We can find early glimpses of what might be called the “existential attitude” (Solomon 2005) in the Stoic and Epicurean philosophies of antiquity, in the struggle with sin and desire in St. Augustine’s Confessions, in the intimate reflections on death and the meaning of life in Michel de Montaigne’s Essays, and in the confrontation with the ...
The term was explicitly adopted as a self-description by Jean-Paul Sartre, and through the wide dissemination of the postwar literary and philosophical output of Sartre and his associates—notably Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus—existentialism became identified with a cultural movement that flourished in Europe in ...
