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1. What Is Existentialism? - Cardiff University

Jonathan Webber Rethinking Existentialism Draft: November 2015. 1. What Is Existentialism? What is existentialism? There seems to be quite some confusion over this. Articles and books on the topic written in English each discuss a variety of thinkers, or a variety of issues, or both, without any clear unity that would explain why these thinkers and issues are included while others are not. What is more, the list of philosophers and other writers changes from one survey to the next, usually includes plenty who did not use the term of themselves, indeed many who would never have heard it, and often includes people who explicitly rejected the label. There is further disagreement between these works over which similarities between the thinkers count as the dominant or defining aspects of existentialism, though never an attempt to show that anything unifies any such set of defining The ultimate reasons for all of this lie in the origin of the word.

She mentions The Myth of Sisyphus, the essay on absurdity that Albert Camus published in 1942, in a way that implies that this is an existentialist work (EPW: 209). Early in her short book Pyrrhus and Cineas, published 3 / 17

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