page_title: List of existentialists
hierarchical_section_title: List of existentialists
caption_attribution_description: A collage of four precursors of Existentialism. From top-left clockwise: Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Public domain due to age of portrait/photography.
context_page_description: Existentialism is a movement within continental philosophy that developed in the late 19th and 20th centuries. As a loose philosophical school, some persons associated with existentialism explicitly rejected the label, and others are not remembered primarily as philosophers, but as writers or theologians. It is related to several movements within continental philosophy including phenomenology, nihilism, absurdism, and post-modernism.
context_section_description: Existentialism is a movement within continental philosophy that developed in the late 19th and 20th centuries. As a loose philosophical school, some persons associated with existentialism explicitly rejected the label (e.g. Martin Heidegger), and others are not remembered primarily as philosophers, but as writers (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) or theologians (Paul Tillich). It is related to several movements within continental philosophy including phenomenology, nihilism, absurdism, and post-modernism.
caption: Many of the founding figures of existentialism represent its diverse background (clockwise from top left): Dane Søren Kierkegaard was a theologian, German Friedrich Nietzsche an anti-establishment wandering academic, Czech Franz Kafka a short-story writer and insurance assessor, and Russian Fyodor Dostoyevsky a novelist
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