Existentialism is a philosophy which inquires into the nature of human existence and what it means to live an authentic life. While its concepts can be traced as far back as ancient Greece, it came to prominence during the immediate post second world War period through the work of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and his partner Simone de Beauvoir. In this episode we explore the key concepts of existentialism and the nature of essence and existence. 

Show notes

Existentialism is a humanism - J P Sartre
Nausea – J P Sartre
Notes from the underground – Dostoyevsky
Existentialism: A very short introduction – Thomas Flynn
Existentialism – Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
Søren Kierkegaard
Jean-Paul Sartre

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