The Plague is considered an existentialist classic despite Camus ' objection to the label.

Landgrebe is known as one of Husserl's closest associates, but also for his independent views relating to history, religion and politics as seen from the viewpoints of existentialist philosophy and metaphysics.

Søren Kierkegaard, generally considered to be the first existentialist philosopher, posited that it is the individual who is solely responsible for giving meaning to life and for living life passionately and sincerely (" authentically ").

Although " prescriptions " against the possibly deleterious consequences of these kinds of encounters vary, from Kierkegaard's religious " stage " to Camus ' insistence on persevering in spite of absurdity, the concern with helping people avoid living their lives in ways that put them in the perpetual danger of having everything meaningful break down is common to most existentialist philosophers.

The possibility of having everything meaningful break down poses a threat of quietism, which is inherently against the existentialist philosophy.

Hamlet is often perceived as a philosophical character, expounding ideas that are now described as relativist, existentialist, and sceptical.

In the 1960s, Mahfouz further developed its theme that humanity is moving further away from God in his existentialist novels.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966.

Because of Derrida's vehement attempts to " rescue " Heidegger from his existentialist interpreters ( and also from Heidegger's " orthodox " followers ), Derrida has at times been represented as a " French Heidegger ", to the extent that he, his colleagues, and his former students are made to go proxy for Heidegger's worst ( political ) mistakes, despite ample evidence that the reception of Heidegger's work by later practitioners of deconstruction is anything but doctrinaire.

" Killing an Arab " garnered both acclaim and controversy: while the single's provocative title led to accusations of racism, the song is actually based on French existentialist Albert Camus's novel The Stranger.

One can easily guess what a European historical and existentialist philosopher might reply [...] You ask me, he would say, to ' die to History '; but man is not, and he cannot be anything else but History, for his very essence is temporality.

Consequently, Avicenna's ontology is ' existentialist ' when accounting for being qua existence in terms of necessity ( wujub ), while it is ' essentialist ' in terms of thinking about being qua existence ( wujud ) in terms of contingency qua possibility ( imkan ; or mumkin al-wujud: contingent being ).

Heidegger himself is often identified as an existentialist, though he would have rejected this.

As it was written in a program note that accompanied the movie's premier " It is a modern poem presented with medieval material that has been very freely handled ... The script in particular — embodies a mid-twentieth century existentialist angst .... Still, to be fair to Bergman, one must allow him his artistic license, and the script's modernisms may be justified as giving the movie's medieval theme a compelling and urgent contemporary relevance ... Yet the film succeeds to a large degree because it is set in the Middle Ages, a time that can seem both very remote and very immediate to us living in the modern world .... Ultimately The Seventh Seal should be judged as a historical film by how well it combines the medieval and the modern.

Absurdism is very closely related to existentialism and nihilism and has its origins in the 19th century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, who chose to confront the crisis humans faced with the Absurd by developing existentialist philosophy.

Boredom is in fact taken in this sense by virtually all existentialist philosophers as well as by Schopenhauer.

The theme of human alienation, the most prominent existentialist theme, presented by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, is thus formulated, in 1932, by young Cioran: " Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

He is often associated with both humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy.

If man as the existentialist sees him is not definable, it is because to begin with he is nothing.

It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama, with a plot that revolves around the exploits of a young man named Harold ( played by Bud Cort ) intrigued with death.

However, Eliade argues against those he calls " historicist or existentialist philosophers " who do not recognize " man in general " behind particular men produced by particular situations ( Eliade cites Immanuel Kant as the likely forerunner of this kind of " historicism ").

* In ' The Myth of Sisyphus ' the French existentialist Albert Camus comments that the age of thirty is a crucial period in the life of a man, for at that age he gains a new awareness of the meaning of time.

If man, as the existentialist conceives of him, is undefinable, it is only because he is nothing.

In the novel, Moorcock weaves an existentialist tale about Karl Glogauer, a man who travels from the year 1970 in a time machine to 28 AD, where he hopes to meet the historical Jesus of Nazareth.

Although it was Sartre who explicitly coined the phrase, similar notions can be found in the thought of existentialist philosophers such as Kierkegaard and Heidegger.

Hyppolite devoted his energies to uniting the existentialist theories then in vogue among French philosophers with the dialectical theories of Hegel and Karl Marx ( 1818 – 1883 ); these ideas influenced the young Foucault, who would adopt Hyppolite's conviction that philosophy must be developed through a study of history.

As a result, in ensuing years he would defend those who proposed a Marxist interpretation of history coupled with the existentialist view of the human individual.

Although Read never described himself as an existentialist, he did acknowledge that his theories often found support among those who did.

Many see him as the main representative of a group of Swedish writers called “ Fyrtiotalisterna ” (“ the writers of the 1940s ”) who channel existentialist feelings of fear, alienation and meaninglessness common in the wake of the horrors of World War II and the looming Cold War .< ref >

Rudolf Bultmann ( who was associated with Barth and Brunner in the 1920s in particular ) was strongly influenced by his former colleague at Marburg, the German existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger.

Paul Tillich, Lincoln Swain, Gabriel Marcel, and John Macquarrie are examples of leading Christian existentialist writers, building upon a legacy of neo-orthodox thinkers like Karl Barth and Emil Brunner, who similarly disdained the propositionalism of traditionalist Protestantism.

In his " Introduction " to the American edition of Nausea, the poet and critic Hayden Carruth feels that, even outside those modern writers who are explicitly philosophers in the existentialist tradition, a similar vein of thought is implicit but prominent in a main line through Franz Kafka, Miguel de Unamuno, D. H. Lawrence, André Malraux, and William Faulkner.

Sartre incorporates an existentialist theme into the play, having Electra and Orestes engaged in a battle with Zeus and his Furies, who are the gods of Argos and the centerpiece for self-abnegating religious rituals.

Sartre, Camus, Malraux and Simone de Beauvoir ( who is also famous as one of the forerunners of Feminist writing ) are often called " existentialist writers ", a reference to Sartre's philosophy of Existentialism ( although Camus refused the title " existentialist ").

Being and Time influenced many thinkers, including such existentialist thinkers as Jean-Paul Sartre ( although Heidegger distanced himself from existentialism — see below ).

Its theme and outlook are often cited as exemplars of existentialism, though Camus did not consider himself an existentialist ; in fact, its content explores various philosophical schools of thought, including ( most prominently and specifically ) absurdism, as well as determinism, nihilism, naturalism, and stoicism.

Though often regarded as the first French existentialist, he dissociated himself from figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, preferring the term Philosophy of Existence to define his own thought.

An existentialist, he believes he has removed all accidental values from himself and arrived at his essence.

Benn's poetry offers an introverted nihilism: an existentialist philosophy which sees artistic expression as the only purposeful action.

Despair, the existentialist says, is the product of uncertainty: being oriented exclusively to the outcome of a decision rather than to the process yields uncertainty, as we cannot decide the future, only our action.

It reflects the lineages of romanticism and existentialism as powerful voices of the struggle with the world, but rejects the romantic and existentialist idea that we can be fully human only by waging war against structure, routine, and repetition — a war that the romantic and the existentialist believes we are doomed to lose.

He makes use of existentialist philosophers and novelists to show that the only type of ontological freedom in the biological hypostasis is the choice to commit suicide.

Jake Horner takes Jean-Paul Sartre's famous existentialist line, " Existence precedes essence ", saying " existence not only precedes essence: in the case of human beings it rather defies essence.