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Existentialism is not a doctrine. It is a family of related insistences. Existence (the lived, particular, situated) precedes essence (the abstract, general, defined). The human being is not a thing with a fixed nature; it is a project that has to be made up as it goes. Freedom comes with anguish. Authenticity is rare and difficult. Death is not the end of life so much as life's organising fact. Key sections include: Existence before essence; What it is, what it isn't; Søren Kierkegaard; Friedrich Nietzsche; Martin Heidegger; Jean-Paul Sartre; Albert Camus; Simone de Beauvoir; Saint-Germain-des-Prés; The Existentialist Argument.
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