Many American students begin their exploration of existentialism by reading either Sartre or Albert Camus. Jean-Paul Sartre’s strong political beliefs, ever-evolving as they were, and…
Searching for Meaning
Individuals associated with Continental philosophy and Existentialism specifically.
Many American students begin their exploration of existentialism by reading either Sartre or Albert Camus. Jean-Paul Sartre’s strong political beliefs, ever-evolving as they were, and…
Many professors of literature would prefer that I not group Franz Kafka among the existentialists. After all, here was a man who was not a…
Søren Kierkegaard, along with Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, is one of the fathers of existentialism. Kierkegaard was very productive as a writer, publishing a wide variety…
It is my opinion that Friedrich Nietzsche and Søren Kierkegaard were the first of The Existentialists. Other thinkers, Hegel and Husserl, for example, contributed to…
There are two famous trios of existentialists; other existentialists are grouped with these trios of “leaders” as appropriate. The first trio of Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich…