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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.
why I have entitled this brief exposition “Existentialism is a Humanism.” Many may be surprised at the mention of humanism in this connection, but we shall try to see in what sense we...
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)
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.
Sep 11, 2024 · existentialism, any of various philosophies, most influential in continental Europe from about 1930 to the mid-20th century, that have in common an interpretation of human existence in the world that stresses its concreteness and its problematic character.
Feb 29, 2024 · “Existentialism is Humanism” is a philosophical essay written by Jean-Paul Sartre, a prominent French existentialist philosopher, and playwright. It was originally presented as a lecture in 1945 to address the criticisms and misunderstandings surrounding existentialism as a philosophy.
Existential humanism is humanism that validates the human subject as struggling for self-knowledge and self-responsibility. [1]
Jul 24, 2007 · The unstated objective of his lecture (“Existentialism Is a Humanism”) was to expound his philosophy as a form of “existentialism,” a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for philosophers, though, ironically, he was about to make it accessible to a general audience.
