PHI 3550Existentialism

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Prerequisites: PHI 3020 recommended Existentialism may be characterized as a philosophical and literary impulse, a multi-sided revolt against the "leveling down" of human existence by forces of industrialization, alienation, and homogenization. In the ideologies of mass society, existentialists identify a series of threats to human freedom and to the uniqueness of the individual. This course examines several approaches to a cluster of philosophical problems, rooted in the concrete realities of human existence.