existentialism
existentialism In the narrower and more popular of its several senses, “existentialism” designates the worldview and depiction of the human condition advanced by Sartre and others (notably Camus (1913–60)) in the shadow of World War II. More broadly and significantly conceived, it refers to the radicalized “subjective turn” initiated by the mid nineteenth-century reaction of Kierkegaard (1813–55) against Hegel’s idealism, and developed during the second quarter of the twentieth century in opposition to objectivity-oriented (naturalistic and positivistic as well as idealistic and rationalistic) treatments of human reality (see logical positivism; naturalism). This movement attained prominence first in Germany, in the late 1920s, and then in France a generation later, as various German and French philosophers directed their attention to the purportedly fundamental “subjectivity” of “what it means to exist as a human being” (as Kierkegaard had framedthe issue). …
-This article is about Existentialism’ ideas about metaphysics, which was translated into Persian by Sedigheh Bayat.
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