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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A little epistemology and some existentialism . ▪ In literary theory they emerge as Marxism, phenomenology, existentialism , structuralism, poststructuralism, deconstruction. ▪ In the context of post-war uncertainty it is relatively ...
Wikipedia
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Existentialism is a term applied to the work of certain late-19th- and 20th-century European philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context philosophy not countable English) A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices. 2 (context philosophy countable English) The philosophical views of ...
WordNet
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n. (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves [syn: existentialist philosophy ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1941, from German Existentialismus (1919), replacing Existentialforhold (1849), ultimately from Danish writer Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), who wrote (1846) of Existents-Forhold "condition of existence," existentielle Pathos , etc. (see existential ), ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
existentialism \ex`is*ten"tial*ism\, n. (Philosophy) a philosophical theory or attitude having various interpretations, generally emphasising the existence of the individual as a unique agent with free will and responsibility for his or her own acts, though ...
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Or: This is one strategy for indicating a kinship between Nietzsche and Sartre different from the one established by the invention of existentialism, and it is thus also a strategy for helping to prevent the philosophical gaze from objectifying Sartre.
We would perhaps no longer be reading the authentic Sartre, but this move might provide an opportunity to depart from the metaphysical negativity of authenticity and bad faith that linger as symptoms of the limitations of existentialism, and to see how Sartre contributes to the power of Nietzsche in philosophy today.
If there is a politics we can use in Sartre, it is neither in his existentialism nor in his Marxism, but in some fugitive, hybrid connections we can cultivate through the imposition of Nietzsche, who himself offers resources for political thought only if we think him through writers like Sartre and Foucault.
France in its relationship to the war years, between the spirit of Resistance during the German Occupation of France and the advocacy by Sartre, as the mouthpiece of post-war French Existentialism, of personal commitment as the primary means of living authentically, has not before been given the attention it deserves.
Sartrean existentialism and its political ramifications to Resistance writing.
At the completion of a lecture on existentialism about a year ago, I found many of the students enthusiastically taking the philosophy to heart.
You can trace his original attitude, when he was diagnosed with diabetes in 1950, at age 19, to his early flirtation with Kierkegaardian existentialism.
The first law of thermodynamics, among many other considerations, made this a kind of cosmological hallucination, a small god's existentialism.
At heart, what existentialism shows is the connection between the absolute character of free involvement, by virtue of which every man realizes himself in realizing a type of mankind, an involvement always comprehensible in any age whatsoever and by any person whosoever, and the relativeness of the cultural ensemble which may result from such a choice.