- Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre (pronounced:), was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy. - Albert Camus
Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher. Although he is often associated with existentialism, Camus preferred to be known as a man and a thinker, rather than as a member of a school or ideology. He preferred persons over ideas. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: “No, I am not an existentialist. - Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986) was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including "She Came to Stay" and "The Mandarins", and for her 1949 treatise "The Second Sex", a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. - Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard 5 May, 1813 - 11 November, 1855) was a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticized both the Hegelianism of his time, and what he saw as the empty formalities of the Danish church. Much of his work deals with religious problems such as the nature of faith, the institution of the Christian Church, Christian ethics and theology, and the emotions and feelings of individuals when faced with life choices. - Paul Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 - October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was, along with contemporary Karl Barth, one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the twentieth century. - Karl Jaspers
Karl Theodor Jaspers (February 23, 1883 - February 26, 1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. - Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Honoré Marcel was a French philosopher, a leading Christian existentialist, and the author of about 30 plays. Marcel obtained the "agregation" in philosophy in 1910, at the unusually early age of 21. He taught in secondary schools, was a drama critic for various literary journals, and worked as an editor for Plon, the major French Catholic publisher. Marcel was the son of an atheist, and was himself an atheist until his conversion to Catholicism in 1929. - Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl. Merleau-Ponty was closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and influenced by Martin Heidegger, but his philosophy tended to focus on the phenomenological and corporeal foundations of perception. - Joss Whedon
Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an American writer, director, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", and "Firefly". He has also written several film scripts and several comic book series. After finishing at Winchester College in England, he went on to receive a film degree from Wesleyan University in 1987. - John MacQuarrie
The Reverend Canon John Macquarrie FBA TD (b.June 27, 1919, d. May 28, 2007) was a Scottish theologian and philosopher. - Hans Jonas
Hans Jonas (may 10 1903 - February 5 1993) is a German-born philosopher. He is best known for his influential work "The Imperative of Responsibility" (German 1979, English 1984). His work centers on social and ethical problems created by technology. Jonas insists that human survival depends on our efforts to care for our planet and its future. He formulated a new and distinctive supreme principle of morality, … - Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era. Coming from a strictly Calvinist family, Carlyle was expected by his parents to become a preacher. However, while at the University of Edinburgh, he lost his Christian faith; nevertheless, Calvinist values remained with him throughout his life. - Lev Shestov
Lev Isaakovich Shestov, born Yehuda Leyb Schwarzmann ) was a Russian - Jewish existentialist philosopher. Born in Kiev (Russian Empire) on January 31 (February 13) 1866, he emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the October Revolution. He lived in Paris until his death on November 19 1938. - Hazel Barnes
Hazel Estella Barnes "(b. 1915)" is an American philosopher, author, and translator. Most well known for her popularization of existentialism in America, Dr. Barnes translated the works of Jean-Paul Sartre as well as writing original works on the subject. After earning her Ph.D. from Yale in 1941, she spent much of her career at the University of Colorado. In recognition of her long tenure and service to the University, … - Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian religious and political philosopher. - Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran was a Romanian philosopher and essayist. - Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu was a French-Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the "Theatre of the Absurd". Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict in a tangible way the solitude of humans and the insignificance of one's existence. - José Ortega Y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher. - Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin David Yalom (* June 13th 1931 in Washington DC), M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist. Dr. Yalom's works have been used as collegiate textbooks and standard reading for psychology students. - Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman, was a sociologist and writer. The 73rd president of American Sociological Association, Goffman's greatest contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction in the form of dramaturgical perspective that began with his 1959 book "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" and was developed throughout his life. - Mulla Sadra
Mulla Sadra also called Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi (c. 1571-1640) was a Persian philosopher, who led the Iranian cultural renaissance in the 17th century. The foremost representative of the illuminationist, or Ishraghi school of philosopher-mystics, he is commonly regarded by Iranians as the greatest philosopher their country has ever produced. His school of philosophy is called Transcendent Theosophy or "al-hikmat al-muta’liyah". - Cecilia
Evangelina Sobredo Galanes, known as Cecilia, (Madrid, October 111948 - Benavente, August 2 1976) was a Spanish singer-songwriter. Her name came from a song by Simon and Garfunkel. Daughter of diplomats, she spent her childhood in several countries and was raised by an American nun. She got a bachelor degree in Laws in Spain and she decided to dedicate herself to music and composition. - Nae Ionescu
Nae Ionescu was a Romanian philosopher, logician, mathematician, professor, and journalist. Born in Brăila, Ionescu studied Letters at the University of Bucharest until 1912. Upon graduation, he was appointed a teacher at the Matei Basarab High School in Bucharest. When World War I began, he was in Germany for additional studies at the University of Göttingen. Romania's entry into the war on the Entente side side prevented him from returning, … - Dino Buzzati
Dino Buzzati Traverso (October 16, 1906 - January 28, 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for "Corriere della Sera". His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel "Il deserto dei Tartari", translated into English as "The Tartar Steppe" - Nicola Abbagnano
Nicola Abbagnano was an Italian existential philosopher. Nicola Abbagnano was born in Salerno. He studied in Naples and taught at Turin. In 1972 he moved to Milan, where he collaborated to Indro Montanelli's "Il Giornale". For a short while, he was assessor for culture in the "comune" of Milan. From 1952, together with Norberto Bobbio, he was co-director of "Rivista di filosofia". Abbagnano's philosophy was defined by himself "positive existentialism". - Benjamin Fondane
Benjamin Fondane was a Romanian and French poet, playwright, literary critic (noted for his works on Lev Shestov's vision and on that of Søren Kierkegaard), film director, and translator. - Willem Frederik Hermans
The Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans (September 1, 1921-April 27, 1995) is considered one of the three most important authors in the Netherlands in the postwar period, along with Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve. His "oeuvre" includes novels, short stories, essays, and philosophical and scientific works. His style is existentialist and generally quite bleak, and his writing style is unique in its short and pointed sentences, especially in Dutch. - Ladislav Klíma
Ladislav Klíma, was a Czech philosopher and Novelist influenced by George Berkeley, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. His philosophy is referred to varyingly as existentialism and subjective idealism. - Carmen Laforet
Carmen Laforet (Born Barcelona September 6, 1921- died Madrid, February 28, 2004) was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada initiated the Spanish Tremendismo literary style. - Steven Holl
Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947, Bremerton, Washington) is an American academic architect best known for the 1998 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland and the controversial 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. In June 2007 the much celebrated Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri opened to the public. Holl graduated from the University of Washington in 1970, … - Manolis Anagnostakis
Manolis Anagnostakis was a Greek poet and critic at the forefront of the Marxist and existentialist poetry movements arising during and after the Greek Civil War in the late 1940s. Anagnostakis was a leader amongst his contemporaries and influenced the generation of poets immediately after him. His poems have been honored in Greece's national awards and arranged and sung by contemporary musicians. - James Leonard Park
James Leonard Park (born in 1941) is an American author and existentialist philosopher from Minneapolis, Minnesota. His major work, entitled "Our Existential Predicament: Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, and Death", attempts to outline the existential malaise felt by many human beings. It also poses that though the malaise is all-pervasive for those who recognise it, one can be released from it by working to achieve an authentic existence, … - William A. Earle
William A. Earle was a twentieth century American philosopher. Earle was an important figure within the movements of existentialism and phenomenology. He had particular expertise in the thought of Karl Jaspers and was an authority on surrealism. His interests included cultural criticism, the history of ideas, aesthetics, film, filmmaking, and mysticism. Students and colleagues regarded him as a strikingly independent, richly provocative educator and thinker. - Abdel Rahman Badawi
Abdur Rahman Badawi was an Egyptian existentialist philosopher. - Richard Kroner
Richard Kroner (1884 - 1974) was a German neo-Hegelian philosopher, known for his "Von Kant bis Hegel" (1921/4), a classic history of German idealism written from the neo-Hegelian point of view. He was a Christian, from a Jewish background. He is known for his formulation of Hegel as 'the Protestant Aquinas'. His Jewish ancestry led him to be 'suspended' (dismissed) under Nazi legislation in 1934, from his university position at Kiel. - Jack Chambers
John "Jack" Chambers (March 25, 1931-April 13, 1978) was a Canadian artist and filmmaker. Born in London, Ontario, he spent eight years (1953-1961) studying in Europe after studying at H.B. Beal Secondary School and the University of Western Ontario. While in Europe he met Pablo Picasso, who suggested he continue his studies in Madrid. - Guido Molinari
Guido Molinari was a Canadian artist, known for his abstract paintings. Molinari was born in Montreal. He began painting at age 13, and his existentialist approach to art was formed during a bout with tuberculosis at age 16, during which he read Nietzsche, Sartre, Piaget, and Camus. He studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He practised abstraction in New York, inspired by Barnett Newman, and Jackson Pollock, … - Jean-Patrick Manchette
Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies and early eighties. His stories are violent, existentialist explorations of the human condition and French society. Manchette was politically to the left and his writing reflects this through his analysis of social positions and culture. - Vilém Flusser
Vilém Flusser was a Czechoslovakian-born Jewish philosopher. Often considered to be a German philosopher, due to the fact that the majority of his publications are in German, he lived for a long period in Brazil and later in France, and his works are written in several different languages. His early work was marked by discussion of the thought of Martin Heidegger, and by the influence of existentialism and phenomenology. - Gérard Bessette
Gérard Bessette was a French Canadian author and educator. Bessette was born in Sainte-Anne-de-Sabrevois, Quebec and attended the Université de Montréal where he studied literature and already began to publish works of poetry. One of his most noted works is "Le libraire" (1960), an existentialist tale of a book store employee in a small Quebec town in the 1950s. The book deals with one of Bessette's most common themes: the stifling culture of Quebec of that time.
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