Existentialism is a label used to refer to a group of 20th-century philosophers, mostly French and German, who take philosophy to be essentially concerned with the problems of individual human existence -- with questions of life and death, meaning and value, hope and despair. Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre are representative of such `existentialist` thinkers. This unit explores 20th-century existentialist thought in philosophy and literature, while also looking at the development of philosophers such as Heidegger beyond the original existentialist frame.
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