The philosophy department will offer an undergraduate course in existentialism next year for the first time since John Wild left the University in February 1961. The half-course will be taught by ...

When I was an undergraduate, the most exciting, life-changing class I took was LSU Prof. Greg Schufreider’s course in Existentialism. The height of my intellectual experience of college was sitting in ...

This course is a general introduction to existentialism. The primary focus of the course will be to engage the core existentialist themes of freedom, subjectivity, alienation, authenticity, death, and ...

I am all alone, not in a despairing existentialist place, though sometimes I go there. No, I am all alone in the intersection of circles in a Venn diagram. The first circle represents the set of ...

The image of the existentialist as a cafe-dwelling, chain-smoking, beret-wearing intellectual type comes largely from Sartre (Getty) Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80) is the philosopher whose work – ...

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In the paneled quiet of the Papal Cancelleria last fortnight, eager-eyed young priests leaned forward on elbows shiny from desk-reading; ascetic monks stretched thin necks from their lowered cowls.