I’m not sure exactly when existentialism’s image switched over from Sartre’s ‘fuck yeah, life is meaningless! let’s do all the things!’ to ‘alas, life is meaningless! we are all sad and alone in the cosmos and stuff.’ I guess Camus happened. Plus Sartre is really terrible at PR.
I’m not sure exactly when existentialism’s image switched over from Sartre’s ‘fuck yeah, life is meaningless! let’s do all the things!’ to ‘alas, life is meaningless! we are all sad and alone in the cosmos and stuff.’ I guess Camus happened. Plus Sartre is really terrible at PR.