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existential philosophy

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Noun1.existential philosophy - (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
philosophy - the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory - a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy
depersonalisation, depersonalization - (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine


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Gayle, Bell, and Byerman define Charles Wright and The Messenger in terms of three different African American traditions, but they ignore the existential philosophy that is at the core of the book, further shattering the book into more diverse and seemingly irreconcilable zones.
It's the kind of mordantly comic exercise in existential philosophy that the term theater of the absurd was invented to describe.
At such outposts as the Christian Faith-and-Life Community and the University YMCA-YWCA, disaffected young people found a free space for discussion and extra-curricular education, and they drew radical inferences from their exposure to social gospel Christianity and existential philosophy.
 
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