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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...
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...
Breathless. Exciting variations on the old existentialist theme: life is just one damn thing after another, and death is the thing after that...