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What does existentialism mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.
  2. (philosophy) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.
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Section three examines the theoretical backlash against these after 1945 in the form of existentialism, critical theory and postmodernism.
Most read him in terms of the German philosophical tradition or existentialism.
The programme seems to combine elements of pop psychology with an odd form of existentialism.
He read deeply on the subject of existentialism, having long conversations with Jean-Paul Sartre.
The argument was directed at the individualist ontology of existentialism in favour of a more communitarian one.
The foundational tenet of existentialism is that existence precedes essence.

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