Word Finder - existentialism

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(not countable) A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.

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The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century.

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The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.

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Sartre's existentialism is atheistic, but the existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian.

At the moment the Sartre list is reading existentialism and Humanism together.

The play was a political revue sketch, padded with Existentialism to confuse the censors.

Sartre has the point of view that is called Atheistic existentialism, which puts the emphasis on the individual instead of society.

Thus he creates his religious existentialism as a philosophy of multiplicity and emancipation from knowledge, morality and rules of mind and action.

Since existentialism tries to remain truthful, the project of exploitation in any form must be wrong.

See - reading this is like being in Paris... discussing existentialism with like-minded individuals in a Latin Quarter cafe.

And be assured, in The Final Days of Simon Bacon the geezers knock existentialism 's block off.

Several eminent thinkers at the time, including Jean Wahl, dismissed Sartrean existentialism as a manifestation of this.