Existentialist

To the Existentialist, we are simultaneously Stranger and Everyman.

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It matters little to the Existentialist reading of the picture whether the prisoner's existence is his last shred of defiance to the hostile forces who finally succeed in destroying him, or if he is merely too exhausted to think.

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Our alternative is to reach for a meaning that isn't conventional, which is what the Existentialist forces us to do.

G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011

In making the choice to place the obscure protagonist at the center of a picture or drama, the Existentialist devises two sides of the same human condition: the Stranger and the Everyman or Everywoman.

G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011

That they were from opposite sides of the globe and had played very different roles in the life-and-death dramas unfolding in Europe and Asia, made them seem even more perfectly suited for embodying the Existentialist capacity of finding ethical clarity amid irreconcilable aims and ideals.

G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011

At the close of the Second World War, an obsession with the Existentialist philosophy of the human condition began taking hold of artists and intellectuals, as it would for the succeeding two decades.

G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011

At the close of the Second World War, an obsession with the Existentialist philosophy of the human condition began taking hold of artists and intellectuals, as it would for the succeeding two decades.

G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011

That they were from opposite sides of the globe and had played very different roles in the life-and-death dramas unfolding in Europe and Asia, made them seem even more perfectly suited for embodying the Existentialist capacity of finding ethical clarity amid irreconcilable aims and ideals.

G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011

That they were from opposite sides of the globe and had played very different roles in the life-and-death dramas unfolding in Europe and Asia, made them seem even more perfectly suited for embodying the Existentialist capacity of finding ethical clarity amid irreconcilable aims and ideals.

G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011

At the close of the Second World War, an obsession with the Existentialist philosophy of the human condition began taking hold of artists and intellectuals, as it would for the succeeding two decades.

G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011