See also Camus’s absurdism.
The school of philosophy that emerged as a backdrop of WWII, where entire generation was confronted with the anxiety-provoking given of death, freedom, and meaninglessness.
Most of frontier were French, most notably Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Gabriel Marcel, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the conceptual groundwork of the movement was laid much earlier in the nineteenth century by pioneers like Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche and twentieth-century German philosophers like Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Karl Jaspers as well as prominent Spanish intellectuals José Ortega y Gasset and Miguel de Unamuno.
See also definition