Ebook: Dictionary of existentialism
Author: Gordon Hạyim
- Genre: Other Social Sciences // Philosophy
- Tags: Existentialism -- Dictionaries, Existentialism
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: Greenwood Press
- City: Westport, Conn.
- Language: English
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The area of philosophy defined as existentialism gained prominence after World War II. Among the more popular existentialist philosophers and writers are Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Instead of focusing upon a particular aspect of human existence, existentialists focus on the whole being as he or she exists in the world. Rebelling against the rationalism proposed by such writers as Read more...