Existentialism

Existentialism is a philosophical movement that claims that individual human beings have full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own lives. It is a reaction against more traditional philosophies, such as rationalism and empiricism, which sought to discover an ultimate order in metaphysical principles or in the structure of the observed world.

The Stranger
Nausea
The Plague
The Metamorphosis
Existentialism is a Humanism
The Trial
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Fall (Vintage International)
Being and Nothingness
Notes from Underground
Crime and Punishment
Man's Search for Meaning
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays
Waiting for Godot
Fear and Trembling
Betty Friedan
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all? ...more
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

Ernest Becker
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

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