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* 2008 -- R/G are Dead Stoppard
Introduction to Existentialism by Marjorie Grene; University of Chicago Press, 1959
* Theology: Existence is prior to essence in St. Thomas. Existentialism by Mary Warnock; Oxford University Press, 1970 1. Ethical Origins: Søren Kierkegaard; Friedrich Nietzsche - 2: Edmund Husserl - 3: Martin Heidegger - 4: Maurice Merleau-Ponty - 5: Jean-Paul Sartre (1)(2) * Camus (The Possessed based on Dostoevsky). So where does Existentialism stand today? It undoubtedly has a place in the history of ideas. Nietzsche is perhaps now most widely recognized as the giant brooding over a wide and diverse area of thought. But it remains true that, in the Gallic version of Existentialism, Sartre is the central figure, and that he cannot be understood without some understanding of the effect that phenomenology had on him. The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology for May 1970 (vol. 1, no. 2) was an issue devoted to Sartre, to celebrate his 65th birthday. There appeared in it, for the first time in English, a short article he had written in 1939 on the fundamental ideas of Husserl. It expresses his excitement and sense of deliverance at the rejection by Husserl of the 'inner life'. The world is real, and humans are part of that world. Things really have such characteristics as being disgusting or being lovable: it is not a mere projection onto the natural world of something within ourselves. He ends the article with these words: 'everything is finally outside, everything, even ourselves. It is not in some hidingplace that we will discover ourselves; it is on the road, in the town, in the midst of the crowd, a thing among things, a man among men.' This vision was never entirely lost, and it is because it remained that, when, having encountered Marxism, he became interested in the truth of history, Sartre had to attempt to reconcile the inevitability of material change with the dynamic free agency of the human 'self'. Finally, I remarked (p. 130) that French intellectual life was prone to crazes. This has certainly been borne out in the last twenty-five years. Existentialism was succeeded by structuralism, then post-structuralism and post-modernism. Some people have seen Sartre as the precursor of these anthropological and essentially relativist theories. I do not think this is so. His insistence that there is a unity and a truth in history to be sought as a goal sets him entirely apart both from the belief that cultures are engaged in different 'language games' and that these 'games' are incommensurable (see Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition ( Manchester, 1984)); and from the view, frequently expressed by Derrida, that there is nothing but words: no world to which the words apply. Such a view would imply that any story told as history was as good as any other, and this Sartre never believed. If Existentialism is the precursor of Derrida, then it is the Existentialism of Heidegger, not of Sartre; and this I would not deny.
[ Fall 2007 Theatre UAF ] No Exit and Three Other Plays (Vintage International) (Paperback) 0679725164 No Exit sparknotes HUIS CLOS PARTIE DEUX (No Exit, Act II) Todd Levin No Exit From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [ ... ]
Thinkers & Platonic Girls (Gallery) ... Nietzsche Page? Nietzsche states that his concept of ressentiment has its roots in a "slave revolt" of ancient Jews, which overturned the Greek aristocratic idea... [ SELF page + Marxism ] ... [ 1 ] No Exit : Sartre vs. Camus Postmodern Existentialism : Stoppard ...
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Existentialism Americana (from T. williams to Mamet?)
2007: Stridberg Lessons in Acting2.3batr.org/existentialism.html"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." N.
German: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a highly influential German philosopher, philologist, and psychologist.
* his embrace of a sort of a-rationalism; and another idea he called "the Will to Power" (Wille zur Macht). Nietzsche was strongly influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer and his concept of "the Will to live". It has been argued that Nietzsche was influenced by the radically nominalist work of young hegelian Max Stirner [ wiki ]
Self Page *
French: Camus and Sartr.
American Version:
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober. EUGENE O'NEILL, The Iceman Cometh
[ ... script.vtheatre.net/amdrama & American Century ]
Existential Primer [ *** ]
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism :
1 Major concepts in existentialism 1.1 Existence precedes essence 1.2 Reason as a defense against angst 1.3 The absurd 1.4 Existentialist perspectives on God 1.5 Sartrean existentialism 2 Historical background 2.1 Kierkegaard and Nietzsche 2.2 Heidegger and the German existentialists 2.3 Sartre, Camus and the French existentialists 2.4 Dostoevsky, Kafka, and the literary existentialists 3 Existentialism since 1970 3.1 Neo-Existentialism and Post-Postmodernism 3.2 Existential Cinema 4 Criticisms of existentialism 5 Adaptation outside philosophy 5.1 Existentialism in psychotherapy 5.2 Terror management theory 6 Existentialism in popular culture
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... Existentialism = from object death became subject...
existentialism and christianity (protestant vs. catholic) and church
[ orthodox concept and russian existentialism -- "Chekhov's Century" : new drama ]
American Postmodernists -- Albee, Mamet, Shepard, Kushner & list... vs. Europeans [ ... pomo.vtheatre.net files]
2007 Stoppard Pages ...
R/G are Dead
Oedipus > Hamlet > Godot ...
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... N: What Is Noble?: Be honest- everything fine, including morality, has come down from the aristocratic. Learn from the old god Dionysus. ... Master morality: The morality of the aristocratic, that which makes values for others and sees itself as noble.
Self-overcoming: The punishing process of self-examination and inner struggle.
Slave morality: The morality of the suffering and opressed, who identify their masters as "evil" and so see themselves as 'good'.
Will to power: The fundamental drive of humans for independence from, and dominance over, other wills.
Beyond Good and Evil http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/nietzsche.htm
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