Edmond Husserl

-German Philosopher

-phenomenology (study of conscious living)

-describes objects as they are registered in the consciousness of the observer

-in lit. focuses attention on the reader's experience

Soren Kirkenguard

Danish Theologian 

Religious existentualist

attempt to demythologize the new testament

estrangement from God requires absurd "leap of faith" to come back to God

       you have to over come logic

crowd is untruth...society invades upon individuality

to exist is to be confronted with question of meaning

-German Writer/philosopher

-"God is dead", humans killed God to take control of themselves

-Celebrated strength of human mind

-nihilism (search for truth is an illusion) 

-German philosopher

-Husserl's pupil

-Daseim (being there)

-phenomenological description of human existence

-time: bound being who is aware of and anxious of his own death

-language is used to shield yourself

-French writer/philosopher

-bridges ideas between philosophy and lit

-man is condemned to be free

-allowed to choose and therefore make mistakes

-existence precedes essence

-french writer

-early Hedonistic notions

-collision between human desire for order and a purposeful life and a meaningless, unresponsive universe

-3 responses to absurdism: suicide, religion, accept absurity

-absurdism ( refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any. )

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