Concept

Existential phenomenology

Overview

Existential phenomenology encompasses a wide range of thinkers who take up the view that philosophy must begin from experience like phenomenology, but argues for the temporality of personal existence as the framework for analysis of the human condition.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Existential phenomenology

• Gabriel Marcel
• Jan Patočka

Related ideas

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Being and Nothingness
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Psychology
• Søren Kierkegaard
• Karl Jaspers
• Architectural theory
• Martin Heidegger
• Edith Stein
• Gabriel Marcel
• Anthropology
• Simone de Beauvoir
• The Second Sex
• Being and Time
• Phenomenology (philosophy)
• Max Scheler
• Emmanuel Levinas
• Edmund Husserl
• Hannah Arendt
• Frantz Fanon
• Existentialism
• Monroe Beardsley

Opposing perspectives

• Lifeworld
• Dasein
• Fundamental ontology

Place in the tradition

Part of Existentialism.

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