List of major thinkers and authors associated with Existentialism
Film directors
- Woody Allen
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Ingmar Bergman
- Robert Bresson
- David Cronenberg
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Michel Gondry
- Werner Herzog
- Jim Jarmusch
- Richard Linklater
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Harold Ramis
- Éric Rohmer
- David O. Russell
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- François Truffaut
- Tom Tykwer
- Luchino Visconti
- Joss Whedon
Novelists, poets and playwrights
- Edward Albee
- Paul Auster
- John Barth
- Georges Bataille
- Samuel Beckett
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Frederick Buechner
- Michel Butor
- Albert Camus rejected being labeled an existentialist, but his thoughts and works are often characterized as having existentialist themes.
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- Noah Cicero
- Joseph Conrad
- Eugene Cullen
- Philip K. [...]
- Fyodor Dostoevsky lived in the nineteenth century, well before the beginning of existentialism proper. Further, being a Russian Orthodox Christian, any ideological alliance with the likes of Sartre and other atheistic existentialists is highly speculative to say the least. But he is a major influence on many existentialist thinkers.
- Marguerite Duras
- Ralph Ellison
- John Fowles
- Ray Fracalossy
- Jean Genet
- André Gide
- Anthony Farway
- Knut Hamsun
- Joseph Heller
- Hermann Hesse
- Henrik Ibsen
- Eugène Ionesco
- Franz Kafka
- Jack Kerouac
- Imre Kertész
- Jerzy Kosinski
- Malcolm Lowry
- André Malraux
- Herman Melville wrote before the existentialist movement, but his works, especially Bartleby the Scrivener have been cited as early examples of existentialism. Camus cited Melville as a very important influence.
- Naguib Mahfouz
- George Oppen
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Walker Percy
- Harold Pinter
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Catherine Robbe-Grillet
- José Saramago
- Nathalie Sarraute
- Claude Simon
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Marquis de Sade pre-dated the existentialist movement by over one hundred years, but his writings affected it.
- Ali Shariati
- Tom Stoppard
- Alexander Trocchi
- Richard O. Russell
- Miguel de Unamuno
- John Updike
- Peter Weiss
- O V Vijayan's most famous work, Khasakkinte Itihaasam (The Legend of Khasak) deals with existentialism.
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Richard Wright
- Fritz Zorn existentialist author ("Mars"), died of cancer while writing about his neurosis
Philosophers
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Nikolai Berdyaev
- Henri Bergson
- Emil Cioran
- Hubert Dreyfus
- William A. Earle
- Ralph Waldo Emerson influenced Nietzsche, and subsequently existentialists, with his insistence on "self reliance."
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Harrison Hall
- Martin Heidegger rejected the label 'existentialist', but his ideas inspired Sartre and many others.
- Karl Jaspers
- Hans Jonas
- Søren Kierkegaard lived before the existentialist movement began and differs from existentialism proper in many ways. Nevertheless, he was profoundly influential among later existential thinkers, and is widely considered the Father of Existentialism.
- Walter Kaufmann
- Ladislav Klíma
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Gabriel Marcel
- Friedrich Nietzsche Like Kierkegaard, lived before the existentialist movement began, and in many ways, differs from existentialism proper. Yet, his work is precursor to many of the developments in later existentialist thought.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Lev Shestov
- Max Stirner, an egoist, lived before the existentialist movement of the twentieth century and cannot properly be referred to as an existentialist. He had minimal impact on the existentialist movement in its heyday, but a revival of his works in the 1970s retroactively placed him as an existentialist precursor.
- Miguel de Unamuno
- Peter Wessel Zapffe
- Colin Wilson
- Paul Ricoeur In his earlier writing, he was very existential, until he learned of hermeneutics
- Mahmoud Khatami.
Psychologists
- Ernest Becker
- Ludwig Binswanger
- Medard Boss
- Frantz Fanon
- Viktor Frankl
- Thomas Hora
- R. D. Laing
- Abraham H. Maslow
- Rollo May
- Fritz Perls
- Otto Rank
- Irvin D. Yalom
Theologians
- Martin Buber
- Rudolf Bultmann
- John Macquarrie
- Gabriel Marcel
- Paul Tillich
See also
- Existentialism
References
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