Category:Existentialism

Existentialism began as a philosophical and literary movement in the late 19th century but became very influential in France after WWII with writers like Sartre and Camus. There are many versions of existentialism, but at it’s core is the question of authentic individual human existence and experience as the ability to exercise one’s freedom from social norms. It was strongly opposed to Levi-Strauss’ structuralism, which emerged at the same time in France.