Talk:Existentialism
Is there a source for the point about Herman Hesse using an idea from Kierkegaard in his novel "steppenwolf". I have been searching and can not verify it. It would be nice to know what work of Kierkegaard was used and also any specific passages from the work that advance this idea.
famous extentialists (sorry I can't spell very well)[change source]
Wasn't Oscar Wilde an Extentialist? Because in The Picture of Dorian Gray, especially in the preface, he talks about art and books being meaningless and that you should learn noting from them and that the novel is just something to read and not teach you anything
Wilde was talking about art, whereas existentialism posits that everything is meaningless: all life, including human existence and ultimately the art it produces. 71.193.107.49 (talk) 06:32, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Absurd?[change source]
"Absurd" definition of life?[change source]
I wouldn't say that all existentialists would say that life is absurd (like Buber or Tillich), but rather that the main focus is on THIS life and the way we live it. The absurd idea is line of thought from Sartre and Camus.