Word: existentialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hocking might not have quarreled with that description. He proudly con curred in Poet John Masefield's con tention that love and beauty are uni versal gateways to truth and agreed with Existentialist Gabriel Marcel that all of experience is a divine summons, exalting passion. He never wavered from the tenet of his first book, The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912), that "the world, like human self, has its unity in a living purpose. It is the truth of the existence...
Speculative Intelligence.Steiner's thesis, presented in language that Existentialist Author Simone de Beauvoir calls in her introduction "neither pathetic nor indignant but with a calculated coolness," is that there should have been a lot more revolts like that. "Certainly," Steiner writes, "there was a share of cowardice in the attitude of the Jewish masses who preferred to endure the vilest humiliation than to revolt." He seems to believe that something in the Jewish character produced the victims' resignation to their fate, says that "death does not have for the Jew the definitive character that it has in general...
Activity v. Self. The professionalist may vaguely believe in God, may even go to church, but "religion plays no important role" in his professionalist attempts to find a meaning in life. Ethically he is a relativist, an existentialist who prefers Tillich to St. Thomas, who reads Camus rather than Marx. His intellectual style is "anti-ideological, pragmatic and empirical," much in the mainstream of American tradition. But he does have tensions, a sense of uneasiness, a vague feeling of disquiet, and they are rooted in his strivings to reconcile two separate parts of his existence, "his public and his private...
...participation by so many of Sartre's other characters, and suicide always follows their conversion as it does Frantz's. Yet Sartre still clings to both philosophies. For Frantz in the end escapes mauvaise-foi, his refusal to accept the reality of his past, and his last words are existentialist in tone: "I have been! I ... took my century on my shoulders and said: I am responsible...
...work be cause, said he, "I am curious to know why I fail." None of his human figures, he felt, captured what he saw. None could-for what he saw was the fleeting essence of man. It is no surprise that Jean-Paul Sartre celebrated him as the ideal existentialist artist. Somewhere be hind the plaster contours of his stick figures lay the truth of man's mortality. "I know," said Giacometti, "with absolute, unshakable certainty that I can never succeed in reproducing what I see, even if I live to be a thousand." At his death last week...