Existentialism is a term that has been applied to the work of a group of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophers who, despite doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject — not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual. In existentialism, the individual's starting point is characterized by what has been called "the existential attitude," or a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world. Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophy, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience.

Existentialism emerged as a movement in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, foreshadowed most notably by nineteenth-century philosophers Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, though it had forerunners in earlier centuries. Fyodor Dostoevsky and Franz Kafka also described existential themes in their literary works.

Other notable philosophers of existence may follow as such: Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel Marcel, Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

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Major concepts

* 5.1 A focus on concrete existence
* 5.2 Existence precedes essence
* 5.3 Angst
* 5.4 Freedom
* 5.5 Facticity
* 5.6 Authenticity and inauthenticity
* 5.7 The Other and The Look
* 5.8 Reason
* 5.9 The Absurd

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Jazyk klubu je cestina - hlavicka je v anglictine spise z pohodlnosti :)
Klub by mel reflektovat filosofii, myslenky a pocity filosofu existence, a to i tech, kteri se k filosofum rozhodne nechteli radit (Camus napr.). Ukolem tohoto klubu neni vymyslet nic noveho, spise si polozit otazku, zda a jak je tento myslenkovy proud sto schopny oslovit cloveka a jeho zivot.

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Nejaka literatura k nalezeni na http://x.anise.cz/ebook/
Pokud mate nejakou knihu ci autora v elektronicke podobe, ktery spada do tematu a neni zde vylistovan, prosim podelte se (me do posty, pridam to tam)
A prosim, knihy pouze v cestine, pripadne v originalnim jazyce. Cist Nietzscheho v anglictine myslim neni uplne nutne ;)