existentialism 
ex·is·ten·tial·ism (----iz′əm)
noun
a philosophical and literary movement, variously religious and atheistic, stemming from Kierkegaard and represented by Sartre, Heidegger, etc.: it is based on the doctrine that concrete, individual existence takes precedence over abstract, conceptual essence and holds that human beings are totally free and responsible for their acts and that this responsibility is the source of their feelings of dread and anguish
Etymology: Fr existentialisme < existenciel
Adjective modifier
- modern: The movement of modern existentialism in visual art starts with Cézanne in France.
- atheistic: Sartre has the point of view that is called Atheistic Existentialism, which puts the emphasis on the individual instead of society.
- sartrean: Several eminent thinkers at the time, including Jean Wahl, dismissed Sartrean existentialism as a manifestation of this.
- religious: Thus he creates his religious existentialism as a philosophy of multiplicity and emancipation from knowledge, morality and rules of mind and action.
Converse of object
- discuss: See - reading this is like being in Paris... discussing existentialism with like-minded individuals in a Latin Quarter cafe.
- read: At the moment the Sartre list is reading Existentialism and Humanism together.
Preposition: as
- humanism: The same can be said for Sartre's ethics in Existentialism as a Humanism.
Noun used with modifier
- geezer: And be assured, in The Final Days of Simon Bacon the geezers knock existentialism 's block off.
L'homme n'est rien d'autre que ce qu'il se fait.Tel est le premier principe de l'existentialisme. Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. That is the first principle of existentialism.
John Clellon Holmesand I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said,'You know, this is really a beat generation'and he leapt up and said,'That's it, that's right!'
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