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UK
/ɛɡzɪstˈɛnʃɪəlˌɪzəm/
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NOUN
- (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
How To Use existentialism In A Sentence
- It is full of those little moments of impotency, existentialism and half-baked philosophical epiphanies that happen to us all.
- It is the latter which is the deeper meaning of existentialism.
- Marx may be described as a humanist, and in this century humanism has been given expression, in both secular and religious forms, in the philosophy of existentialism.
- He published On Humanism, a letter to Beaufret in which he distanced his own philosophy from French existentialism.
- The atrocities of the Second World War coupled with developments in genetics, robotics, and space exploration (just to mention a few) are reflected in nihilism and existentialism philosophies, presenting the image of a man as a fluctuant entity, surrounded by relative values, incapable of seeking ultimate truths and haunted by the disintegration of ideologies that once he has held sacred. POSTMODERN LITERATURE:
- In literary theory they emerge as Marxism, phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, deconstruction.
- I really like philosophy, especially existentialism.
- I still owe him pint-long explanations of existentialism and postmodernism, you know.
- His recasting of subjectivity, albeit in nonessentialized terms, still looks back to the voluntarism of Existentialism.
- You'll find the nouveau hippie existentialism, the cockney laced rap and a handful of funk-fuelled fun.
