Existentialism

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Study of the works of important existentialist thinkers including Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, Beauvoir and others. Issues addressed include human freedom, the problem of life's meaning, the relation between the individual and society, the grounds of human relations, Existentialism and the problem of race, Existentialism and Feminist thought, and others. Discussion of existentialist themes in literary, cinematic and other artistic endeavors.