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This video identifies and briefly discusses some of the key thinkers within the large and loose movement in literature, philosophy, theology, psychology, and art that eventually gets called "Existentialism". It is intended to help people who are interested in this are in philosophy and literature specifically to have some sense of which writers it would be useful for them to read and study, and how they fit into the roughly 130 years of development of the movement.
There is no uncontroversial or consensus definition of what Existentialism is or means as a philosophical stance or movement (and anyone who tells you there is, you should rightly be suspicious of). Instead, there is a network of figures dealing with a common set of themes, issues, and problems, often referring to or influenced by each other. Existentialism also overlaps with several other movements in philosophy and literature, so you sometimes see existentialist authors placed under other categories.
I distinguish between several phases of Existentialism's development as a movement and set of orientations within philosophy and literature. Of course, there is some overlap and bleeding-over between these phases.
The first phase includes Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Friedrich Nietzsche, and arguably also Leo Tolstoy, Max Stirner, Anton Chekhov, Georg Brandes, and Henrik Ibsen.
The second phase includes Lev Shestov, Miguel de Unamuno, Rainer Maria Rilke, Karl Jaspers, Franz Kafka, Gabriel Marcel, Martin Heidegger, Martin Buber, Nikolai Berdyaev, Ortega Y Gasset, and perhaps Lou-Andreas Salomé, André Gide, August Strindberg, T. S. Eliot, and W.E.B. Dubois.
The third phase includes Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Frantz Fanon, Emil Cioran, Keiji Nishitani, Samuel Beckett, Jean Anouilh, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and perhaps Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Marguerite Duras
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This video identifies and briefly discusses some of the key thinkers within the large and loose movement in literature, philosophy, theology, psychology, and art that eventually gets called "Existentialism". It is intended to help people who are interested in this are in philosophy and literature specifically to have some sense of which writers it would be useful for them to read and study, and how they fit into the roughly 130 years of development of the movement.
There is no uncontroversial or consensus definition of what Existentialism is or means as a philosophical stance or movement (and anyone who tells you there is, you should rightly be suspicious of). Instead, there is a network of figures dealing with a common set of themes, issues, and problems, often referring to or influenced by each other. Existentialism also overlaps with several other movements in philosophy and literature, so you sometimes see existentialist authors placed under other categories.
I distinguish between several phases of Existentialism's development as a movement and set of orientations within philosophy and literature. Of course, there is some overlap and bleeding-over between these phases.
The first phase includes Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Friedrich Nietzsche, and arguably also Leo Tolstoy, Max Stirner, Anton Chekhov, Georg Brandes, and Henrik Ibsen.
The second phase includes Lev Shestov, Miguel de Unamuno, Rainer Maria Rilke, Karl Jaspers, Franz Kafka, Gabriel Marcel, Martin Heidegger, Martin Buber, Nikolai Berdyaev, Ortega Y Gasset, and perhaps Lou-Andreas Salomé, André Gide, August Strindberg, T. S. Eliot, and W.E.B. Dubois.
The third phase includes Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Frantz Fanon, Emil Cioran, Keiji Nishitani, Samuel Beckett, Jean Anouilh, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and perhaps Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Marguerite Duras
If you'd like to support my work producing videos like this, become a Patreon supporter! Here's the link to find out more - including the rewards I offer backers: patreon.com/sadler
You can also make a direct contribution to help fund my ongoing educational projects, by clicking here: paypal.me/ReasonIO
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My videos are used by students, lifelong learners, other professors, and professionals to learn more about topics, texts, and thinkers in philosophy, religious studies, literature, social-political theory, critical thinking, and communications. These include college and university classes, British A-levels preparation, and Indian civil service (IAS) examination preparation
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#existentialism #philosophy #literature #authors #writers #absurdity #life #drama #reading #books
