Word: existentialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director Godard obviously means that some people are monsters, but quite possibly the question requires an existentialist answer, too. The hero, though such ideas are far beyond his merely physical preoccupations, behaves like a personification of Gide's acte gratuit ("an action motivated by nothing . . . born of itself"), and his story can be seen as an extemporization on the existentialist tenet that life is just one damn thing after another, and death is the thing after that...
...horrors of pathology that Greene's imagination centers. It is the quiet, and some would say merciful, side effect of leprosy-the disappearance of sensation, of the power to feel even pain-which haunts Greene, and which he makes the basis of a novel that would be called existentialist, in the manner of Camus' The Plague, if it were not also Christian...
...Future of Mankind, by Karl Jaspers. The prose of an author who is both a German and an existentialist is bound to be somewhat murky, but Jaspers advances powerful arguments against both easy despair and easy optimism about the human condition...
...Future of Mankind, by Karl Jaspers. The prose of an author who is both a German and an existentialist is bound to be somewhat murky, but Jaspers advances powerful arguments against both easy despair and easy optimism about the human condition...
After Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, 77, is the ranking German existentialist. Unlike Heidegger, who flirted briefly with the Nazis, Jaspers maintained a quiet but obstinate dissent. Ticketed for a concentration camp in 1945, he and his wife were saved by the U.S. Army's capture of Heidelberg. Though he tends to view Christianity less in orthodox terms than as a body of myth and symbols, Jaspers is a member of the Evangelical Church, and in 1946, in his book The Question of German Guilt, he bade Germans cross-examine their consciences on the war-guilt issue. Outspokenly independent...