Word: existentialist
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...existentialist, when talking about "engagement" or the distance between me and me," uses words which "correspond to our experience of the world," Moore said. Linguistic philosophers, on the other hand, have denied that existential terminology accurately describes man's experience in the world...
Foxes & Blocks. The contributions, whether Catholic, existentialist or Communist, amount to one long indictment of tyranny. There are searing reminiscences of the Nazi occupation. The Communists are criticized less directly than the Nazis -by inference and allegory-but just as forcefully. In The Gold Fox, by Catholic Novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski, a small boy imagines a gold-colored fox in his bedroom that makes him happier than the dreary, jaded human beings around...
Ford will, furthermore, have to help recruit. If Philosophy lacks an existentialist, or Economics has too many researchers and too few teachers, he will have to raid intelligently to fill the gaps. Besides attracting other men from the outside, he has to make sure that those already at the University are too happy to be stolen...
...Wanderhope rejects the comforts of belief and accepts the final existentialist absurdity-that man must abandon the search for his meaning in a meaningless world. With this, he musters the bitter courage to return to a life he can neither bear nor depart...
This is straight out of the Marquis de Sade, with some Sartrean existentialist glosses provided by the doctor's morphine-addicted mistress ("The world is foul, Commissioner, rotting like a badly stored fruit") and a trained nurse who has written a pamphlet titled: Death, Goal and Purpose of Our Life, A Practical Guide. In the end, Barlach sweats out the ticking last hours, minutes, seconds before the time set for the operation he knows will end in his own death under the doctor's sadistic knife. Pat to the final instant comes Salvation, in the mysterious appearance...