Existence precedes essence. – Sartre
jean-paul sartre (1905-80) was a philosopher from france who worked on existentialismexistentialism
existentialism is a stance regarding the meaningness of the human condition as a response to nihilism from Jean-Paul sartre and others, coming from nietzsche, kierkegaard, [.... his work being and nothingness is seen as a brilliant misreading of sein und zeitsein und zeit
sein und zeit (1927) is heidegger's magnum opus about understanding being and time using phenomenology. the epigraph comes from the sophist.
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Reading list
- the novel grendel apparently embodies sartre's thought through the eponymous character.