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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,653 wordsExistentialism, philosophical movement or tendency, emphasizing individual existence, freedom, and choice, that influenced many diverse writers in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Because of the diversity of positions associated with existentialism, the term is impossible to define precisely. Certain themes common to virtually all existentialist writers can, however, be identified. The term itself suggests one major theme: the stress on concrete individual existence and, consequently, on subjectiv...
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Client Centered Carl Rogers
1,443 wordsThe French existentialism movement during the early and mid twentieth century influenced many areas outside of the philosophical world. Among those effected was uprising humanistic psychology. Carl Rogers played a principal role in this new concentration. Rogers psychological contributions consisted mainly of his practice of client-centered therapy and his idea of the self and self-actualization. Both of these theories have strong existentialist connections. Rollo May s The Origins and Significa...
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Blaise Pascal Existentialist Themes
1,308 wordsExistentialism refers to the philosophical movement or tendency of the nineteenth and twenty th centuries. Because of the diversity of positions associated with existentialism, a precise definition is impossible; however, it suggests one major theme: a stress on individual existence and, consequently, on subjectivity, individual freedom, and choice { 3 }. Existentialism also refers to a family of philosophies devoted to an interpretation of human existence in the world that stresses its concrete...
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Black And White Film Noir
4,098 wordsEXISTENTIALISM IN FILM I could not say where or how existentialist themes first emerged in film. Often times, critics will point to the work of Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini as early examples. Indeed, these two men are titans in their art, and they will be discussed in this essay. However, it occurs to me that a certain genre of film being made in America during the late forties and early fifties perhaps deserves credit for treating very early, if not for the first time, subject matter and...
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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,668 wordsExistentialism in the Early 19 th Century Major Themes Because of the diversity of positions associated with existentialism, the term is impossible to define precisely. Certain themes common to virtually all existentialist writers can, however, be identified. The term itself suggests one major theme: the stress on concrete individual existence and, consequently, on subjectivity, individual freedom, and choice. Moral Individualism Most philosophers since Plato have held that the highest ethical g...
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