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This relation of transcendence as constitutive of man (not in the sense that God is transcendent, but in the sense of self-surpassing) with subjectivity (in such a sense that man is not shut up in himself but forever present in a human universe) – it is this that we call existential humanism.
Existentialism Is a Humanism (French: L'existentialisme est un humanisme) is a 1946 work by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, based on a lecture by the same name he gave at Club Maintenant in Paris, on 29 October 1945.
Sartre answers the title question of his lecture: existentialism is a humanism grounded in the shared human condition—humanist not because it worships humans, but because it is designed for humans and recognizes that everyone is constantly trying to become the people they imagine they should be.
Existentialism Is a Humanism on JSTOR. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE. Translated by CAROL MACOMBER. Introduction by ANNIE COHEN-SOLAL. Notes and Preface by ARLETTE ELKAÏM-SARTRE. Edited by JOHN KULKA. Copyright Date: 2007. Published by: Yale University Press. Pages: 128. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv15vwkgx. Select all. (For EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley)
Existentialism is a Humanism Lyrics. My purpose here is to defend existentialism against several reproaches that have been laid against it. Existentialism has been criticised for inviting...
Nevertheless Existentialism and Humanism provides a good introduction to a number of key themes in his major work of the same period, Being and Nothingness, and to some of the fundamental questions about human existence which are the starting point for most people’s interest in philosophy at all.
Mar 26, 2022 · Few philosophers have been as famous in their own life-time as Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80). Many thousands of Parisians packed into his public lecture, Existentialism is a Humanism, towards the end of 1945 and the culmination of World War 2.
