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Definition of existentialism:

°A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices, with foundations in the thought of Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and notably represented in the works of Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), Gabriel Marcel (1887-1973), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80).
"The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century."
°The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.
"Sartre's existentialism is atheistic, but the existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian."
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Definition of existentialism:

°A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices, with foundations in the thought of Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and notably represented in the works of Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), Gabriel Marcel (1887-1973), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80).
"The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century."
°The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.
"Sartre's existentialism is atheistic, but the existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian."
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