Existentialism is a form of philosophy that was originated in or around the 1930s and is perhaps most closely associated with the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre. In fact, existentialism has developed in a wide range of divergent directions to the extent that it is hard to determine what is the core of the philosophy and what is the superstructure that has grown up on top and around that core. Further, a lot of the terminology and means of argument connected with existentialism is complex, dense and, generally, difficult to penetrate.
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