An Introduction to:
Mr. Kilbridge, McQuaid Jesuit
• The philosophy that dominated the 20th c.
• Kierkegaard and Nietzsche as forerunner
• Nietzsche denied God’s existence
• “God is Dead”
• Slave Moralities
• Übermensch
• 1920s France – renewed interest
• Response to pessimism of Nietzsche
• Complete human freedom
• Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre
The Scream, Edvard Munch, 1893
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1905 – 1980
French philosopher and playwright
Eventually shifted from Existentialism to
Hegelian Socialism
Being and Nothingness, 1943
No Exit, 1944
“existence precedes essence”
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Valet
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Garcin – A Brazilian Journalist
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Estelle – A wealthy socialite
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Inez – A postal worker
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Don’t trust the initial accounts of their lives –
self-deception