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Overview of Existentialism

instructed to hold. Sartres "No Exit" Joseph Garcin grows closer to Inez and Estelle in telling them his story. Giving oth...

Modern Society's Antihero and Existentialism

In five pages existentialism is examined in terms of the theories of Frankl, Husserl, Camus, Sartre, and Nietzsche and applied to ...

Humanism and Existentialism

whatever they become, defining their being through a projection of what they foresee of themselves in the future....

Existentialism, God, and Man’s Purpose

The philosophy of existentialism originated among late nineteenth century philosophers such as Keirkegaard...

Existentialism and No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre

In four pages this paper discusses Sartre's assertion 'Hell is other people' within the context of the existentialism of his play ...

Accounting for Human Behavior

they do? This question has been debated by psychologists, research scientists and philosophers for many years. This paper looks at...

Marguerite Duras, A Biography

This essay provides an overview of the life and career of Marguerite Duras, French novelist and film maker, specifically focusing ...

Development of Existentialist Theme in The Flies and No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre

In ten pages this paper discusses how existentialism is thematically presented in these plays by Jean Paul Sartre. Five sources a...

The Guest 3 by Albert Camus

want to play God. But Balducci insists; regardless of what Daru chooses to do with the prisoner afterwards, Balducci is leaving th...

Existentialism and Ingmar Bergman's Persona

In about seventeen pages this Ingmar Bergman film is analyzed in terms of existentialism and its role. Seven sources are cited in...

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Existentialism

In ten pages existentialism is examined in a consideration of the philosophies of Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre and then applies th...

Analysis of Film and Existentialism

In ten pages this research paper explores how the existentialism philosophy has been incorporated into global cinema with an exami...

Existential Psychology and Existentialism

In twelve pages this research paper considers existential psychology and existentialism in an examination of definitions and writi...

Life and its Meaning

In five pages this paper examines life's meaning in a consideration of such philosophies as Albert Camus' French existentialism, s...

Jean Paul Sartre's 'The Wall' and Existentialism

In four pages Sartre's short story is examined in terms of how existentialism is contained within. There are no sources listed....

Pedro Paramo's Character

so affable to the outside world but toward their families are tyrannical and hateful. Rather, Paramos tyranny extended to all ove...

Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and Existentialism

In 12 pages the ways in which Crane's novel reflects the principles that would later become known as the philosophy existentialism...

Education Philosophies

In fourteen pages this paper examines the philosophies of postmodernism, Marxism, existentialism, analytic, reconstructionism, beh...

Wholeness and Self Awareness

restricted in its understanding. At the very core of personhood is a sense of being. From that single source stems all other qua...

Tillich, Frankl, Others

This essay discusses the beginning of existentialism, what it is, the key theories, who contributed, and the primary purposes of t...

Kierkegaard and Sartre: Philosophies

is a body, "more numerous than the people which compose it," but it can "never be shown" because it is simply an abstraction (Kier...

Exile in Works of American Literature

In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...

A Personality Analysis

will not grow without sunlight and water" (Humanist Theory, 2002). Brief Overview of Behaviorist Theory Behaviorism reli...

Existentialism and Albert Camus

explanation, and ultimately irrational," but he also "considered life valuable and worth defending. While the American public thou...

Film The Matrix and the Philosophies of Rene Descartes and Jean Paul Sartre

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

"The Great Gatsby" and Existential Values

moralism in the United States, and struggling to find worth in either of them. For this "Lost Generation", as they are commonly ca...

Philosophical Discussion Questions

as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...

Gilgamesh - A Review of Symbols and Themes

one might look at the very opening lines of the epic, which address the reader, even the contemporary reader, directly and states ...

Why Be Moral?

todays society, but the search for contentment goes back centuries. For many searchers, happiness comes and goes, but it is a popu...

Epochs

knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...