Nausea jean paul sartre barnes noble5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() “More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. It reveals to us that we are wholly responsible-for ourselves, for meaning, for value-and that it all begins with the necessity of our making an authentic choice to accept this responsibility, to accept the burden of our radical freedom. ![]() Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (especially his revelation of the origin of self-consciousness from a life and death struggle for recognition and consequent lordship and bondage power relations), existentialism is a predominately European World War II era movement of philosophers, authors, artists, and public intellectuals that explores the meaninglessness of life so as to found an ethic of utter self responsibility to make life worth living. Born out of the contemporary Continental school of phenomenology (which refocuses philosophy on the richness of experience that is nothing before a cooperative creation of meaning) and deeply influenced by G. From anxiety and dread to absurdity and affirmation in spite of it all, existentialism is a radical philosophical and literary study into the nature of lived human existence. ![]()
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