Medieval & Modern Philosophy · 20th century
Sartre & Existentialism
'Existence precedes essence': radical freedom, anguish, bad faith, the look of the other, Beauvoir's The Second Sex, Camus and the absurd, and Sartre's politics.
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Prereqs: Kierkegaard; Nietzsche. Next: Hannah Arendt. Sources: Sartre, *Being and Nothingness* (1943), *Existentialism Is a Humanism* (1946); Simone de Beauvoir, *The Second Sex* (1949); Sarah Bakewell, *At the Existentialist Café* (2016).Next: 1. Core claims