Other early existential philosophers, including Friedrich Nietzche and Fyodor Dostoevsky, wrote about creating one’s own ...

For M. Sartre, who is at once the foremost French dramatist of the war years and the father of a new and frequently discussed way of looking at the world, known as Existentialism, the decorum of ...

Kierkegaard: Embracing Anxiety and Authenticity Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) is often considered the father of existentialism. He emphasized the importance of subjective truth, arguing that each ...

To that end, the philosophy of existentialism propounded in the 19th and 20th centuries, provided a bulwark against the growing collectivist tendencies of that age. Danish theologian and ...