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existentialist, n. and a.|ɛgzɪˈstɛnʃəlɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
A. n. An exponent or adherent of existentialism.
1945A. J. Ayer in Horizon July 12 Philosophically, he [sc. Sartre] is usually described as an Existentialist. The use of this label is justified in so far as he clearly owes much to Husserl, from whom the group of contemporary German philosophers who are commonly known as Existentialists has chiefly drawn its inspiration. 1950A. Huxley Themes & Variations 115 Biran was an existentialist, who insisted that man must always be considered as he really is, an incarnate spirit or mindbody. 1952M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) vii. 142 He wore a long dark back-belted coat of a cheap shaggy material much affected by priests and young existentialists. 1961Daily Tel. 24 Feb. 19/5 The long, greasy hair, the scraggy beards, the short tight jeans and grubby fingernails now dubbed ‘Beat-nik’ were immediately after the war the uniform in Paris of young people who called themselves Existentialists.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to existentialism or existentialists.
1946Time 23 Dec. 40/2 Jean-Paul Sartre, the leader of the French Existentialist movement, vigorously, often brilliantly, drags a shady topic into the light. 1948Mind LVII. 370 Existentialist reaction against the abstract ideas of personality characteristic of Kantian and post-Kantian idealism. 1956A. J. Ayer Probl. Knowl. i. 23 Existentialist philosophers have gone so far as to deny the law of identity. 1957Times 28 Dec. 7/6 The decline of the existentialist movement has left French intellectual life dispersed and fluid. 1957,1965[see prec.]. |