Existentialism Now

Introductory Essay: Composting Existentialism in the 21st Century

1. "God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him!" (Nietzsche, The Joyous Science)
2. "He whose eye happens to look down into the yawning abyss becomes dizzy." (Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety)
3. "Remain true to the earth." (Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
4. "One is not born, but rather becomes, woman." (Beauvoir, The Second Sex)
5. "Racism, hatred, resentment... alone cannot nurture a war of liberation." (Fanon, The Damned of the Earth)
6. "Without music, life would be a mistake." (Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols)
7. "To life, to the here-and-now reality." (Beauvoir, The Prime of Life)
8. "Now I bid you lose me and find yourselves.""Language is the house of being. In its home man dwells." (Heidegger, Letter on Humanism)
9. "In all areas of existence, man will be encircled ever more tightly by the forces of technology." (Heidegger, Discourse on Thinking)
10. "I am not in front of my body, I am in it, or rather I am it." (Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception)
11. "Hell is... other people." (Sartre, No Exit)
12. "Man is always congested, drowned in contingency." (Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks)
13. "You shall become who you are." (Nietzsche, Ecce Homo)
14. "To be dead is to become prey to the living." (Sartre, Being and Nothingness)
15. "Existence is one, across and through the separation of existents." (Beauvoir, The Second Sex)
16. "The question is not to know whether one accepts or rejects violence, but whether... it tends towards its own suspension or toward self-perpetuation." (Merleau-Ponty, Humanism and Terror)
17. "Yes to life. Yes to love. Yes to generosity." (Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks)
18. "Ambiguity is the essence of human existence and everything we live or think has always several meanings." (Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
19. "There must be a concept of man, a concept about the future of mankind." (Fanon, The Damned of the Earth)
20. "Animals. As I see it they are a philosophical problem." (Sartre, Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre)

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