Sublime

key players:

Edmund Husserl

• not an existentialist himself but had deep influence over the movement

• developed phenomenology

• focus on subjectivity and how we experience the world was the foundation upon which existentialist ideas were laid

• conscious experience is the basis for understanding reality

Heidegger

• Husserl’s student

• took phenomenology in a more

Mid-century existentialist movement
Started with nihilism

Existence precedes essence - Jean-Paul Sartre (Opposite of Plato - who thinks productivity exists regardless)

Man’s search for meaning - Viktor Frankl