Existentialism
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Existentialism is a philosophical movement in which individual human beings are understood as having full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own lives.
Existentialism
Philosophical movement stressing personal experience and responsibility of the individual, who is seen as a free agent.
[edit] Existentialism and pre-war influence
Heidegger's influence on French philosophy began in the 1930s, when Being and Time, "What is Metaphysics?
existentialism - An anti-rationalist philosophical tendency and attitude to life concerned with the being or existence of the free individual in an absurd or meaningless universe.
Also see existentialism, formalism, humanism, multiculturalism, and other isms.
In existentialism, the term refers to general human anxiety at having free will, that is, of being responsible for one's actions. This condition may or may not help you as an artist! An example of a work in which angst is an important element: ...
It sets out a feminist existentialism which prescribes a moral revolution. As an existentialist, she accepted Jean-Paul Sartre's precept existence precedes essence; hence "one is not born a woman, but becomes one.
 See also: Movement, School, Classic, Roman, Painting
  
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