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Before Nietzsche and Sartre: Why Kaufmann Starts Existentialism with Dostoevsky
When people think of existentialism, the names that usually come to mind are Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, or Sartre. Yet Walter Kaufmann, one of the twentieth century’s foremost interpreters of the movement, begins the story somewhere unexpected—with Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground. In the opening essay of Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, Kaufmann makes a striking…
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The Myth of Sisyphus at its core tension
One kills oneself because life is not worth living; that is certainly a truth, yet an unfruitful one because it is a truism. But does that insult to existence, that flat denial in which it is plunged, come from the fact that it has no meaning?
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I Tried X for Real Conversations. Here’s What Happened | DesiNeo
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