Word: existentialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much more relevant to this century is the antinomian facet of Gordon's thought, which Leifer rejects as being alien to the Jewish tradition. Maybe that's why I like it (some of my best friends work for Mosaic, don't forget.) The antinomian (existentialist is the current word, I suppose) bias of thinkers like Gordon and Buber clearly do clash with law-centered traditional Judaism. But the absence of an absolute ground for morality in these two writers is not, as Leifer says, evidence that Judaism today lacks vigor. Rather, it is a token that Gordon and Buber...
...these modern near-tragedies could easily have been stretched into novels and good ones. Author Cicellis has chosen to contract her drama to excellent effect. What saves her from the existentialist, fatalist-futile school is largeness of heart and a glowing style. If her people are the losers of the world, they are dressed in a human dignity of her making. They may be involved in sordid little incidents, but they are also touched by tragedy, as when the modern Antigone reflects on her father: ''The guilty mess would be burnt clean, cleared of pity. She would spare...
Subject or Object. Tillich cites as proof of his analysis the modern world's outcry against the lack of inner aim, "the so-called existentialist art, literature and philosophy . . . expressions of emptiness, meaninglessness and life-anxiety . . . split-consciousness, indifference and disintegration...
Breathless (in French). Formless, flashing cinematic cubism, based on the existentialist tenet that life is just one damn thing after another...
Breathless (in French). Formless, flashing cinematic cubism, based on the existentialist tenet that life is just one damn thing after another...