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Old 12-12-2007, 10:16 PM
 
Location: Boise
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i have been reading about existentialism lately and i have found it really interesting. but i was wondering if anyone could suggest any good existentialism writers.

i have already read some Nietzsche and Sartre and i was looking for others.

thanks.
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Old 12-12-2007, 10:34 PM
 
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Camus? Try it.
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Old 12-12-2007, 11:55 PM
 
Location: Boise
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i think i read something of his as well. if i remember right it was a piece on suicide? i forgot about him, i was pretty impressed with that also.
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Old 12-13-2007, 03:47 AM
 
Location: The Netherlands
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Simone de Beauvoir, Georg Hegel, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger.
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Old 12-13-2007, 04:01 AM
 
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Default Suggestions:

Martin Heidegger
Karl Jaspers
Soren Kierkegaard
Gabriel Marcel
Fyodor Dostoesvsky
Franz Kafka

Literature: J.D. Salinger, William Golding, George Orwell, et al.

Film: Ingmar Bergman
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Old 12-13-2007, 05:11 AM
 
Location: Oxford, England
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Jean Genet
Andre Gide
Franz Kafka ( one of my very favourite authors, a true genius IMO)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Albert Camus
Knut Hamsen
Andre Malraux
Samuel Beckett
Eugene Ionesco ( I hate his works I have to admit though !)
Salinger
Orwell
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Old 12-13-2007, 11:47 AM
 
Location: Boise
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thanks guys that should keep me in reading for quite some time.
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