Why is Existentialism so popular?

Why is Existentialism so popular?

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sounds cool

Because analytic philosophy is hard

This, but also because its been heavily bastardized by decontextualists and has degenerated to the point of being another stepping stone in the masturbatory process of middle-class ennui cultivation.

Having an existential experience is just a social calling card for how 'introspective' and 'informed' people are of the mundanity of their lives, rather than the cacophonous terror made manifest by such information as it was originally described.

I would also say that the rising trend of acceptance or even encouragement of the mentally ill and suicidal comes with a necessary growth of nihilism, but the argument can be made that nihilism is a distinct philosophical concept from existentialism despite the close relationship they share in philosophical/psychological development of many individuals.

Unrelated, but I'm lmaoing at the clip of EXISTENTIALISM: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND.
You have to have some kind of pure retard decontextualized teaching of Notes to get anything from it - a text that theoretically posits that man is reliant on the authority of God to function cannot be existentialist.

You need to read Kierkegaard.

If Kierkegaard successfully posits a form of existentialism in which God can still exist, then that nut needs to be teaching it from Kierkegaard's text and not decontextualizing Notes, which is a heavily pro-religion response to the linked movements of humanitarian socialism and societal nihilism in Dostoevsky's contemporary Russia. Hell the second half of Notes is direct refutation, and largely parody, of anti-Christian rhetoric in Chernyshevsky's 'What is To be Done?'
It's not existentialist at all and Kierkegaard has no sway in that.

Existentialism is a-theist?

Man gives meaning to an otherwise meaningless world, instead of God and classical metaphysics.

This is Satanic, I claim.

Camus got lots of pussy

Its existentialist

Notes is usually taught as an existential text. This is not unique to Sadler.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism#Dostoyevsky

Kierkegaard is not an existentialist, he is a proto-existentialist. Fucking retard.

READ KIERKEGAARD YOU FUCKING PAGAN

You’re a retard

What do you mean to do when you assert that something is 'Satanic?'

Break down for us what 'Satanic' means to you.

satanic = the demonic.

it is fear for the good. its the freedom to against god's will, and then the self-deception is the demonic.

That isn't what existentialism means otherwise half the people called existentialists aren't.
>Kierkegaard
>Buber
>Shestov
>Jaspers
>Marcel

nihilism with a flavor, it was a good fit for the age of solidification, it's going out of style now that we are entering the age of dissolution

>nihilism with a flavor
>I don't know what existentialism is

repeat after me. KIERKEGAARD IS NOT AN EXISTENTIALIST.
you're wrong dipshit

Existentialism isn't a school with defined boundaries. Depending on how one wants to draw that line Kierkegaard may or may not be considered an existentialists, however considering that many respectable philosophers do consider him one it's not as simple as you, some random guy on the internet being able to decide for everyone whether or not he is. Also nice job at ignoring all the other Jewish and Christian existentialists. If you define existentialism as inherently nihilistic then you are using a definition of the term that is extremely strange and that has no currency.
But if you want to please describe how at least half of the most famous existentialists aren't actual existentialists.

>KIERKEGAARD IS NOT AN EXISTENTIALIST.
The whole world is laughing at you.

relatively low barrier to entry, insofar as it doesn't make the adolescent with shower thoughts and hot opinions feel retarded like he does if he tries to read Wittgenstein. Also most people end up having some superficial thoughts that could be classified as "existential" at some point in their youth, so naturally they are drawn to a philosophy they feel they can identify with.