Existentialist

What sets the existentialist notion of despair apart from the conventional definition is that existentialist despair is a state one is in even when he isn't overtly in despair.

I’m an existentialist, and I think part of being human is pointing out how fucking absurd this all is.

It marks the first time the British artist, whose images have been described as existentialist for their no-frills approach, has lensed ads for Dior.

It's only because her win is paired next to 's masterful direction of The Power of the Dog' astonishing work on the existentialist masterpiece Everything Everywhere All At Once that she could be considered as the weakest link in this tremendous lineup.

In a practically opposite take on the genre, almost like something out of a blends sci-fi and futuristic technology with horror in a way that is nearly existentialist.

Westerns made in the 21st century are often existentialist and contemplative of the loneliness that the desert provides, intimate with character relationships and less focused on violence or conventional narrative arcs.

Within two or three days after his death, after offering a Mass for him, I decided to write a book about him which I titled “Walker Percy: Prophetic, Existentialist, Catholic Storyteller” (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. 1996, pp. 127).

The French don't really need a traditional army; they could simply bore their enemies to death with a crack team of existentialist philosophers spreading ennui.

Your constant sojourn clearly depicts you as the owner of your own sphere in every solar year; like an existentialist you have chosen your own destiny and have written your own story in which you feature as the hero.

Another existentialist, Albert Camus, had a very particular view on this lack of meaning.

There seems to be a cosmic balance in the ways characters’ lives intersect, despite the show’s existentialist message.

A pervasive theme in the works of existentialist philosophy, however, is to persist through encounters with the absurd, as seen in Camus ' The Myth of Sisyphus ("One must imagine Sisyphus happy"), Camus, Albert.

A primary cause of confusion is that Friedrich Nietzsche is an important philosopher in both fields, but also the existentialist insistence on the inherent meaninglessness of the world.

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

Existentialism In Existentialist philosophy the term angst carries a specific conceptual meaning.

Expecting an accessible follow-up to Easy Rider, audiences were treated to artistic flourishes (like the inclusion of "scene missing" card shots) and a hazily existentialist plot that dabbled in non-linearity and the absurd.

From a philosophical point of view, La Jetee is an existentialist tale of doomed existence, inevitability, and predetermined death.

His Existentialist phase was depicted in his second novel, The Outsider (1953), which described an African-American character's involvement with the Communist Party in New York.

His fame as a philosopher grew tremendously in the 1930s, in large part because the ascendant existentialist movement pointed to him as a precursor, although later writers celebrated him as a highly significant and influential thinker in his own right.

However, an existentialist philosopher would say such a wish constitutes an inauthentic existence.