Andy Martin reminds us of that in his entertaining survey of two new books about the existentialist philosophers, At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell and The Existentialist Moment by Patrick Baert.
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I also enjoyed "At the Existentialist Café," by Sarah Bakewell, for its portrait of the group of writers and philosophers connected in various ways to existentialist thought.
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At the Existentialist Café , by Sarah Bakewell (Other Press) .
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AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFÉFreedom, Being, and Apricot CocktailsBy Sarah BakewellIllustrated.
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He embodied the existentialist romance of the New York School.
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It's slow and existentialist and smart, but not really into rumination.
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In this existentialist tragicomedy, footwear is one of Gogo's major concerns.
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One of them was French existentialist author Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964.
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AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFÉ: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails, by Sarah Bakewell.
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If you're still an existentialist when you're 40, you're probably really, really sad.
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Freedom is, as the existentialist I think rightly say, a burden, it&aposs a difficulty.
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I actually agree with this a lot, and as a result I'm quite the existentialist.
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We see them in the library, flipping between Sartre's existentialist philosophy and Toni Morrison's novels.
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This existentialist writer is one of only two people to voluntarily refuse a Nobel award.
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The absurdist and existentialist thought in those books shines through a technicolor prism in my work.
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The revolutionary imagery of 1968 (though rarely its existentialist wit) still informs today's chants and slogans.
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You'd call yourself a Marxist, a neoconservative, a Freudian, an existentialist or a New Deal liberal.
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Like in a Sartrean existentialist finale, the gun doesn't protect; it is an agent of self-destruction.
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Simone de Beauvoir was "the prettiest Existentialist you ever saw", according to the New Yorker in 1947.
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And knowing that this life isn't all there is leads these discussions in some rather existentialist directions.
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The vivid promo video even looks like an existentialist New Wave film that escalates into a political thriller.
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But the existentialist drama promoted by that movement, careening between uplift and despair, was dangerous territory for her.
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He has always been a natural existentialist, devoted to the idea that meaning and character emerge through action.
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Like Prideaux's, Kaag's Nietzsche is a largely apolitical existentialist who challenges his readers to be what they might become.
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For all its absurdism and performativity, were the '80s also our least existentialist decade — one of our most embodied?
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"Why?" is a hallmark of Byrne's best-loved songs, immortalized by his famous existentialist cry: How did I get here?
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This science-fiction action-RPG has a heaping amount of existentialist angst, intense battle sequences, and purposefully mysterious game mechanics.
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After the heaviness of the last two episodes, "The X-Files" took a welcome comedic and existentialist turn this week.
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I doubt I'll ever find the quietly murderous "Bellyache," say, much more than a sublimated tantrum, bummer, existentialist gesture, whatever.
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In existentialist terms, we are all condemned to our own freedom, as Sartre said, and the responsibility inherent in it.
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The series exploded in popularity right from the start thanks to its black humor, captivating interpersonal drama, and existentialist themes.
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"At the Existentialist Café" is a bracingly fresh look at once-antiquated ideas and the milieu in which they flourished.
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With this solo, Mr. Crewdson reclaims his spot as a heavyweight of staged photography and a chronicler of white existentialist angst.
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As a young woman, she read Existentialist philosophers like Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche to liberate herself from family and religion.
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I looked forward to my adult life in New York, the only place in America where one could be an authentic existentialist.
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He had been exposed at length to the philosopher Henri Bergson, whom he chose to read as a kind of proto-existentialist.
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To the Editor: Bob Dylan's silence after the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature may be existentialist, as Adam Kirsch argues.
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And then there is Ask Polly, the existentialist advice column born on The Awl and currently on New York Magazine's The Cut.
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He played the slave Lucky, who delivers a 21998-word monologue, in the first Broadway staging of "Godot," Beckett's groundbreaking existentialist work.
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Before I begin The Ringed City, the final downloadable expansion for From Software's existentialist fantasy epic Dark Souls 3, I have to prepare.
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Ms Bakewell credits the existentialist movement, broadly defined, with providing inspiration to feminism, gay rights, anti-racism, anti-colonialism and other radical causes.
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He said, however, that retail stocks with a lot of short interest are still struggling with an "existentialist moment" in reworking their business models.
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In the space of a song, the London-based pop collective Superorganism often finds its way from joy to existentialist ennui and back again.
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Gray admires him and Lev Shestov, a twentieth-century Russian existentialist, both "negative theologians" who predicated a God about which nothing could be said.
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It was a sort of existentialist fable about the fragility of self, built out of the raw materials left over from the first game.
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We curated pieces from the social media accounts doing it best — Art History Snap, Art History's Burn Book, Texts From Your Existentialist, and LACMA.
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Zama, a man as impetuous as he is stuck, resembles other existentialist antiheroes as he swings between spellbound passivity and sudden lunges into action.
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Once, Ms. Erdogan said, she "was an outcast in literary circles" in Turkey for her existentialist writings, which appealed more to a European audience.
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"So many publishers told me, 'Oh your writing is great, it's impressive, but, you see, this existentialist stuff, we have done already,'" she said.
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I immersed myself in French literature, dressed all in black, and thought of myself as an existentialist, although I couldn't have said what that meant.
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Less helpful, albeit grand, is "Cézanne's Doubt" (1945), a famous essay by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that applies existentialist and phenomenological theories to the artist's procedures.
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The third has a son caught up in a privileged-class existentialist funk, who, unbeknown to her, is also visiting Jarmuli at the same time.
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She turned to "The Second Sex" in 2016 when she was reading Sarah Bakewell's "At the Existentialist Café," which chronicles the existential movement in Europe.
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Michael C. Hall, resurrected from "Lazarus," stars in Will Eno's philosophic dazzler, an existentialist one-man show that throws words around like so much confetti.
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It is a formula for each of us in an existentialist funk to connect to our deepest values and apply them to a hurting world.
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In his 1944 play No Exit, the French existentialist thinker Jean-Paul Sartre trapped three strangers together in a drawing room and called it hell.
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In those insightful late career interviews, she links that commitment to an ethics around authenticity, that existentialist challenge which her work answers affirmatively on her behalf.
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Although Yuen examines indisputably existentialist subject matter (figures dragging abstracted burdens through space, women laden with oversize collars and hairdos), his paint handling is never overwrought.
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"The body is not a thing," French feminist-existentialist Simone de Beauvoir wrote in The Second Sex, her treatise on the role of women in society.
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And certain strands of her more recent work have a meditative, existentialist cast — a reminder of Ms. Piper's initial hopes for the transcendent potential of abstraction.
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Especially important was the published endorsement by Jean-Paul Sartre, in association with whom he shared acclaim as an existentialist philosopher, although he denied being such.
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Like an existentialist Carrie Bradshaw by way of Carl Jung, I often get to thinking: How much of a person is personality, and how much is pathology?
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While it's fascinating to see the film's existentialist heart pulse and its thoughtfulness leap, Sausage Party's true strength and its biggest selling point is its extreme humor.
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But even as I mindlessly scrolled through Instagram or Reddit, I felt the existentialist dread of knowing that I was misusing the best years of my life.
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Karl Jaspers, the 20th-century Existentialist philosopher who rigorously examined questions of German guilt after World War II, also studied the deeper and more generic issues involved.
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Interpretations of "The Plague" over the years have ranged from a critique of the Nazi occupation during World War II to a leading example of existentialist literature.
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In her existentialist NBC sitcom The Good Place, which is heading into its fourth and final season, Bell's character is a bad person learning to be good.
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The mood of nausea at the world, a disgust at the entirety of existence, is familiar to those of us who cut our teeth reading existentialist fiction.
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It offers a biographically driven account of his artistic development, recounting his embrace and rejection of Surrealism in the 1930s and his later turn to existentialist philosophy.
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In "After Eden," the choreographer John Butler cast them in the Harkness as Adam and Eve facing existentialist angst in the world to which they were expelled.
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Only two people have ever turned down the Nobel Prize -- existentialist philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre (literature, 1964) and Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho (Peace Prize, 1973).
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Of all the shows that have redefined the way we think about television, the most invigorating of them in recent years have been comedies with an existentialist bent.
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Because in a very existentialist, doomy way, life is being thrust into suffering without being able to argue, but that doesn't mean you have to view it negatively.
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The novel makes too much use of shopworn archetypes—a seductive housekeeper, a self-sacrificing prostitute—but Altan deftly pushes the tropes of detective fiction into existentialist territory.
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Near end of Albert Camus's existentialist novel "The Stranger," Meursault, the protagonist, is visited by a priest who offers him comfort in the face of his impending execution.
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In his introductions and footnotes, he distanced Nietzsche from fascist bombast—naming the Übermensch the "Overman" was just one strategy—and recast him as a kind of existentialist.
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Malik, 44, who is known in France as an author and spoken-word artist as much as a musician, has mostly stayed faithful to the existentialist playwright's text.
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You see, I've been teaching the 17th-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal, and the Existentialist tradition he prefigured, since Bert introduced me to them almost 30 years ago.
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Celaya has produced a series of paintings related to the Danish existentialist, starting with "The First Kierkegaard," 2006, which is on view at the Phillips Collection through April 2.
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In New York another novelist, Norman Mailer, drunkenly stabbed his wife at the launch of his abortive campaign to run for mayor on an "Existentialist Party" ticket in 1960.
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Jean-Paul Sartre was the existentialist writer who turned down a Nobel prize in literature, saying he didn't want to be associated with any institution, no matter how noble.
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After an existentialist moment, conscious of deciding my fate, I ran down to the bridge deck and found my favorite staff naturalist hurrying in the direction of Doug's operation.
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" The deferral of responsibility for one's own actions to an outside agency, such as history, is what Sartre, in his existentialist writings of the time, defined as "bad faith.
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Tworkov and the New York painters of his generation argued from an existentialist platform "[declaring] their independence from all institutionalized concepts of the artist's role in society," wrote Dore Ashton.
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My indoctrination into existentialist philosophy came courtesy of one of the aforementioned colleges, and mostly via the works of one very sad German man in his 40s: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.
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A lot of the lyrics on At War with Reality read like poetry—are you still writing from an existentialist place, or are you looking outward for inspiration these days?
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Though Slimani is not a neo-existentialist, by interrogating motherhood's role in society she calls into question our (supposedly) most natural relations and responses to tragedy, just as Camus did.
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"I keep waiting for a surreal moment or existentialist crisis," said Mr. Bailey, dressed in jeans and a denim shirt, stirring cappuccino in a china cup with his silver spoon.
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As if dealing with unfamiliar grammar isn't challenging enough, existentialist works like "Huis Clos" and "L'Etranger" are introduced not long after, in high school — a true philosophy of the absurd.
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There has been little fiction of note, aside from the one supreme example of the Dutch writer Tim Krabbé's darkly mysterious existentialist novella, "The Rider" (originally published in the 1970s).
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For a moment, it seemed as though two contending interpretations of our existentialist questions had converged to nurture a sense of purpose as we enter a reality redefined by technology.
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While I'm cautious about drawing direct lines between games and film too often, Chung has more in common with that philosophical, existentialist Swedish filmmaker than you might imagine at first glance.
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The Soul (Un)Gendered: Anupam Sud, A Retrospective at DAG gallery is the first retrospective of Sud's work in the USA, and is good introduction to her intense and existentialist art.
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Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, the antiheroes of the Irish writer Kevin Barry's buoyant third novel, "Night Boat to Tangier," are former drug runners — they're aging and existentialist and twinkling thugs.
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When time came write to lyrics for a new record I was all drunk on The Rebel by Albert Camus and I really wanted to write songs that tackled the existentialist dilemma.
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During an interview with Business Insider, Leonardo Nam, who plays Felix Lutz on the existentialist robot drama, said that he was taken aback but just how much nudity surrounded him during filming.
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The 100-minute play comes with generous doses of absurd humor and pathos, as Mayenburg brings together a "Hunger Games"-style kill-or-be-killed plot with the sensibility of Existentialist theater.
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"Zama" has been described as a work of existentialist fiction, and its protagonist, alone with a troubled mind, is as much an ambassador from the twentieth century as a Baroque-era bureaucrat.
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JS: I am intrigued by your interest in de Kooning — an artist whose existentialist search, rather than a conceptual one, seems, on the face of it, diametrically opposed to your project in painting.
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It was his ability to draw on the self-seriousness of the existentialist play (Ionesco and Beckett), and to respond to their aesthetic despondency with baroque fabulation that made Angels a gay masterpiece.
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His songwriting evinced not just a keen eye for narrative detail but also an unerring ear for spoken vernacular and a wry, existentialist bent akin to that of Kris Kristofferson or John Prine.
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One year later, I started working on my first novel, "Suicide of a Dead Man," about a married man who has existentialist issues, and who falls in love with a 17-year-old girl.
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But soon it becomes clear that this warren has shed all the rabbit-y virtues, cunning and daring and courage and mischief, in favor of odd imitations of human culture — attempted sculptures, existentialist poetry.
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He played the tapes on several separate monitors to create the abstract image of a body performing a dance — at once fractured and whole, synthetic and organic — that was more than dance, more like existentialist calisthenics.
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As an educated Brazilian with an interest in philosophy who came to adulthood in the early seventies, he was probably influenced in his habit by the existentialist school, almost all of whom liked a good puff.
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When there was a choice of self-conscious social movements, a young person could try them on like clothing at the mall: be an existentialist one year and then join a Frankfurt School clique the next.
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Read: In Kevin Barry's buoyant third novel, "Night Boat to Tangier," longlisted for the Booker Prize, a pair of existentialist thugs in a Spanish port city recount their friendship, their fights and their many bad decisions.
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The last 10 minutes of delirium, post-shotgun-blast, consists of Lemoin misremembering quotations from existentialist philosophers (his repeated mangling of Boris Vian is particularly vivid) followed by a call for artists to unite under the tricolor.
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J. R. SOLONCHE BLOOMING GROVE, N.Y. * Existentialists in America To the Editor: Edward Mendelson's review of "At the Existentialist Café" (April 17) allows me to express my great pleasure at the reception for Sarah Bakewell's wonderful book.
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The French Existentialist philosopher Albert Camus wrote of Sisyphus, the figure of Greek myth condemned to roll a boulder up a mountain only to have it roll back down, at which point Sisyphus renews the endeavor, forever.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the short story by John Cheever, "The Death of Justina" the author writes a sentence that is, at the same time, a polemic, an accusation, a plea, and an existentialist query.
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But whether he's having an existentialist crisis in double-time on "270 Figures," or bouncing back and forth with Megan Thee Stallion on the pure Houston heat of "She Live," his flows are just as captivating as his words.
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After this, "At the Existentialist Café" leaves France for Germany and goes backward in time to the early-20th-century origins of phenomenology in the work of Edmund Husserl and the stirrings of reaction against it in Husserl's early acolyte Heidegger.
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Sarah Bakewell's "At the Existentialist Café": a group biography or history of Heidegger, Sartre, De Beauvoir, Camus, Merleau-Ponty and others who have meant a lot to me intellectually even if I didn't understand what many of them were saying.
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Men who want to ride have a spectrum of different motorcycle-based masculinities to choose from: There are the metrosexual Belstaff-jacket-wearing David Beckhams; the "Mad Max"-style crazy adrenaline junkies; leather-clad Angels types; even existentialist motorcycle maintenance gurus.
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The scenes depicted are equal parts fantastical and existentialist: a woman carries a heavy child up stairs; a couple gazes at invisible forces in the distance; a man and woman are mobilized by mechanical gears; skeletons and skulls join the feast.
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Drunkenness thwarts the existentialist journey of Dionysus, Ariadne, and the Minotaur in "The Thong of Dionysus" (2015), and lastly, "Camel Toe" (2008) similarly conveys a more comedic inflection, when a male aviator grapples with the loss of his lover with a curious distraction.
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He also employed sgraffito — scratching through a layer of paint to reveal what lies beneath — for a series of portraits, done just after the war, whose dark humanism rhymes with the existentialist philosophy then in fashion in the cafes of Saint-Germain.
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The hundreds of authors and titles in his literary pantheon included the existentialist Sartre ("The Words"), the Turkish writer Mr. Pamuk ("The White Castle") and the French novelist Claude Simon ("The Flanders Road"), each of whom won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Europe's original existentialist might have gone darker in Crime and Punishment, but he captures a larger universe here, from the portrait of a family whose members achieve Christly heights and Trumpian lows to cerebral set pieces that would blow most novellas out of the water.
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" In the 20th century alone, theologians as important as the Reformed Swiss theologian Karl Barth to Lutheran existentialist Paul Tillich to the evangelical Clark Pinnock have explored various models of hell and damnation that challenge or transcend the popular notion of "eternal fire and brimstone.
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He was the squarest possible existentialist hero: a man who holds the answer to every single trivia question, but not to the great final question of death — and yet he keeps showing up anyway, reading his clues, giving us every last answer he can.
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Although even the most hard-bitten existentialist would be unlikely to support a systematic framework for suicide, it makes a difference when "suicide" is more likely to mean a fender bender and damage to one's pocket rather than the death or injury of another.
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Rosebud (11 bis, rue Delambre) will throw those nostalgic for the Roaring Twenties back to an era when the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and the feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir sipped sophisticated cocktails there, now served by white-tuxedo-wearing waiters for €14.
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Dr. Ouelet insists (and Major later parrots) the rather existentialist idea that though we cling to our memories as if they define us, it's actually our actions that define us — as if this was some kind of meaningful dichotomy, and we can only pick one.
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This is why he was the youngest artist in the exhibition, Monster Roster: Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago at the Smart Museum of the University of Chicago (February 11 – June 20123, 2016), which included work by Leon Golub, June Leaf, Seymour Rosofsky, Nancy Spero, and H.C. Westermann.
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At the time, I was researching the history of the New York Studio School, and Pensato had taken its teaching method — which was focused on erasure and constant re-investigation rooted in Existentialist philosophy (Sidney Geist called it "work, work, suffer, fail") — and made it her own.
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He had the most glamorous name in politics; he wore the mantle of martyrdom; and he had transformed himself from a calculating infighter—he had managed his brother's Presidential campaign, in 1960, and served as his Attorney General after the election—into a kind of existentialist messiah.
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It's the sort of space you might stumble upon in the existentialist action RPG world of NieR:Automata, or the lonely post-industrial landscapes suggested by Oneohtrix Point Never's Zones Without People, all given the suggestion of hope by the low-key swoon of Robinson's synth programming.
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He's got a hickory-smoked voice that is perfect for delivering the writers' Southern variant on their usual macho-existentialist dialogue, turning every scene — whether he's on a hunting expedition on his West Texas ranch or sipping drinks at the Yale Club — into a teachable moment about predator and prey.
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Think of movies like the Coen brothers' quirky, existentialist version of True Grit; Steven Soderbergh's jazzy new-Hollywood-royalty riff on Ocean's Eleven; Brian de Palma's hyper-stylish, hyper-violent Scarface; Martin Scorsese's Boston crime take on The Departed; John Carpenter's grim, urban reimagining of Rio Bravo or Assault on Precinct 22.35; or Terry Gilliam's knotty, fatalistic sci-fi film 21 Monkeys.
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This year's snubs: Jodie Comer, Oh's co-star in Killing Eve, walked away empty-handed; Viceland's hilarious late-night show Desus & Mero didn't get any noms at all; NBC's The Good Place, Mike Schur's existentialist take on the afterlife, didn't get any comedy nominations (although Ted Danson nabbed a nod for Outstanding Comedy Actor); and David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return wasn't nominated for any of the major categories — although it did snag two nods for cinematography and directing.
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I'm on a reading jag after a long period of only writing, so there's a towering "to read" pile: "Sudden Death," by Álvaro Enrigue; "Using Life," a novel by the imprisoned Egyptian Ahmed Naje; "Homegoing," by Yaa Gyasi; "Heroes of the Frontier," by Dave Eggers; "The Underground Railroad," by Colson Whitehead; "Diary of the Fall," by Michel Laub; "The Good Immigrant," edited by Nikesh Shukla; "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty," by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson; "Birth of a Bridge," by Maylis de Kerangal; "Known and Strange Things," by Teju Cole; "The Little Communist Who Never Smiled," by Lola Lafon; "The Fire This Time," edited by Jesmyn Ward; "At the Existentialist Café," by Sarah Bakewell; "Time Reborn," by Lee Smolin; "Moonglow," by Michael Chabon; and let's say the last four or five novels by Marías, several by Krasznahorkai, and — as always — unfinished Proust.
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