This presentation introduces students to a few of the major figures of 20th Century Existentialist thought.

1. 1 EXISTENTIALISTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

2. 2 MARTIN HEIDEGGER Heidegger's philosophy begins with a profound anti-Cartesianism, an uncompromising holism that rejects any dualism regarding mind and body, the distinction between subject and object, and the very language of "consciousness," "experience," and "mind."

3. 3 Heidegger’s work investigates the meaning of authentic existence, the significance of our mortality, our place in the world and among other people as an individual. Sartre’s philosophy was profoundly influenced by Heidegger.

4. 4 Heidegger’s legacy is marred by his involvement with the Nazi party in the early days of Hitler’s rise to power. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhHT7pYmNZg&feature=related

5. Jean Paul Sartre and Hannah Arendt helped to rehabilitate his reputation in the philosophical and academic communities. He remains a controversial figure to this day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0YTBIFdK7Y&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW0ZYa0-7cg&feature=related

6. “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” . "Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth."- Jean-Paul Sartre

7. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lFLO16TRPQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxbkPCLlXII&feature=related Sartre and personal freedom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J49ntsYLRc

9. Lover of Jean-Paul Sartre

10. Wrote important feminist treatise “The Second Sex” in 1949I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

11. ALBERT CAMUS You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udk0vRXGLlA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFx_QEi-vww&feature=related

12. At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

13. .br />11 FRANZ KAFKA Kafka was not a trained philosopher or disciplined writer. Kafka never indicated that he was expressing a deep philosophical theory in his aphorisms. But, when you consider the time, place, and nature of Kafka — then you see an existentialist..

14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DfrBcjisVo&feature=related 12 The story begins with a traveling salesman, GregorSamsa, waking to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boSFjzWJXcU