Word: existentialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he died in 1855, the great Dan ish existentialist Soren Kierkegaard de scribed the effects of anxiety in terms that are strikingly apt today. He spoke of his "cowardly age," in which "one does ev erything possible...
Despair and a feeling of emptiness have arisen from the humanistic tradition, however, Tillich claimed. Existentialist philosophy has issued from the "discovery of man's ultimate predicament." In recognition of this plight he posed the "fundamental question of education." "Can we develop beyond this situation without sacrificing the humanistic achievements...
Adultery is the cleverest of the seven episodes-a cynical little satire on a well-known Gallic institution: the ménage à trois. While dining out one day, a young bachelor (played by Jean-Paul Belmondo, the post-existentialist punk in Breathless, who proves roguishly engaging in romantic comedy) gives a neglected wife (Dany Robin) the old let's-do-it look. She looks right back. Wearing his horns jauntily, the husband invites the bachelor home for lunch. "My wife hates money," he murmurs casually, "so she spends it as fast as she can. By the way, when...
Breathless. Exciting variations on the old existentialist theme: life is just one damn thing after another, and death is the thing after that...
Breathless. Exciting variations on the old existentialist theme: life is just one damn thing after another, and death is the thing after that...