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What do you do when the old answers about the meaning of life stop working? Between the 1840s and the 1950s a loose band of writers, from a Danish author who attacked his own national church to a French Algerian novelist who refused the label, gave strikingly different replies, and their arguments still shape how we talk about freedom, anxiety and being true to yourself.

You will meet Kierkegaard's leap, Nietzsche's demon, Sartre's waiter caught in bad faith and Camus's Sisyphus walking back down his hill, then set them against Schopenhauer and Cioran, who thought despair was simply the honest conclusion. The critics get a fair hearing too.

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  1. 1 1. What Existentialism Is 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. Kierkegaard: The Single Individual 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. Nietzsche: After the Death of God 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. Heidegger: Being-in-the-World 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. Sartre and de Beauvoir: Freedom and Bad Faith 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. Camus and the Absurd 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. Pessimism and Its Answers 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. Existentialism in Life, and Its Critics 5-question quiz

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