Existentialism

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Focuses on key texts in the existentialist traditionsuch as Camus, Emerson, Sartre, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Kierkegaardexploring major themes with which these thinkers grapple, such as authenticity, conformism, anxiety, nihilism, absurdity, and freedom. What challenges does modernity pose to the possibility of leading a genuinely meaningful life? How is it possible to live with the burden of freedom? Can we make sense of human suffering without appeal to the possibility of divine redemption?