The origins of the Existentialist Movement

Introduction

This discussion will discuss the origins of the Existentialist movement. In order to do so adequately, the discussion will explain the concepts Anguish, forlornness and despair according to Sartre. This philosophical discussion and proposed solutions to actual problems inherent to the human condition, as the absurdity of life, the significance and insignificance of being, the dilemma of the war, the eternal theme of time, freedom, either physically or metaphysics, the God-man, atheism, human nature, life and death. Existentialism seeks to reveal what surrounds man, making a detailed description of the material medium and abstract in which the individual develops (existing), so that he obtain an understanding of its own and can make sense or find a justification for their existence.

Discussion & Analyses

Existentialism is the most significant antecedent Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, called the "father of existentialism", who influenced the French philosopher Sartre. Late in the twentieth century, this philosophical was developed (never in a systematic way, although its popularity grew after the moral and ethical issues brought about by the Second World War, apart from the fear caused by the atomic bomb)-and ended up framed within the philosophical irrationalism called thinkers and novelists of a name among the French Jean-Paul Sartre and Gabriel Marcel, Albert Camus the Algerian and German Martin Heidegger (Kreeft). Albert Camus, existentialist, began to show through his essays and novels the absurdity of the world.

Originally, this is a movement that belongs to the history of philosophy and very little to that literature. The philosophical and literary creation that approach in existentialism, yet remain two distinct and parallel businesses. The existentialist writer does not try to blend them into a common language or a new type of discourse (Sartre). It does not question except in Nausea, gender differentiation, but to comply with docility. It shows an astonishing ability to use successively. The themes of the absurd, Camus, are expressed in turn in the novel, the essay and drama. Sartre excels in even wider variety of genres: he shows more safety masterful taste of innovation. In this sense, there is no one inventor (Dreyfus and Wrathall). And if the existentialist writers have, in the 1950s, reaching a very wide published by the skilful use they made ??of traditional genres and language is the same respect that sometimes reject today in the literature of the past.

Existentialism arose in the period that ran between ...