What is existentialism really?

What is existentialism really?

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Apprehension of mortality.

Countless people are alienated, and don't understand the meaning when it comes to their place in our economic system. Maybe? I don't know, just thinking out loud.

A philosophic attitude in which one attempts to constitute a perspective of the world not by evaluating ordinary life notions of reality but rather attempts to constitute a description of reality only from what is immanently given (what exists in from of us hence "exist"-ensialism)

It is not simply that nothing is taken for granted but rather one tries to start from nothing

Stay quiet in the baby corner Marxist sophomore

so, to unspook ourselves? is that even possible?

To unspook is to already bring in a question of motivation which calls for justification which as far as I can see is very difficult to existentially justify.
Most existentialists hold any desire in a place of high suspicion and its certainly not an existentialist attitude to "come in" with such a mission, one must determine justified motivation from the examination of the experience of existence itself.

"No". We have to supress desires to fit into industrial society and put up a façade towards institutions. It's some spooky stuff.

Ok, and that relates to existentialism how?

Simone de Beauvoir

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334. According to encyclopedias, Kierkegaard is supposed to have been the first "existentialist" philosopher. But what does that even mean? When was there ever a philosopher who didn't concern himself with existence? That's all that philosophers are concerned with! because they are concerned with EVERYTHING, and there IS nothing else apart from existence! Do these people who create these utterly retarded labels ever read anything? All the issues with which K-man was concerned have been mulled over by philosophers for millennia, and if you look closely enough you'll not find a single idea in him that had not already been explored to one degree or another by numerous previous thinkers (and in plenty of cases to a much greater depth than him). There is no "existentialism", there are only a bunch of mouthbreathing subhumans who are too stupid to deal with the actual issues at hand, and who therefore prefer to make neat little bunches of them by blanketing them with retarded makeshift labels, and then proceed to juggle those instead so that they won't ever have to think about anything. Even "postmodernism" is a more valid label than existentialism, and that's saying something!

Not an argument

>According to encyclopedias, Kierkegaard is supposed to have been the first "existentialist" philosopher. But what does that even mean? When was there ever a philosopher who didn't concern himself with existence?

The logical conclusion to an atheistic viewpoint, or alternatively a philosophy only concerned with the 'existent.'

>what is christian existentialism

Atheists trying to believe in God again

bad faith

a contradiction in terms

It's the modernist branch of philosophy, pretty much infected by equal parts Kierkegaard, Nietzche and Marx. The tenets are lifted from all of them and synthesized into different versions. Sartre coined the term, but he's not the only one fits the label. Most modernist writers of the early to mid 20th, and quite a few few before, fit under the umbrella. Even Habermas.

You'll find the best description of the movement in Boris Vian's parody of Sarte in L'ecume Des Jours

what did he mean by that?

Does it even matter...