Existence and Choice
Dungen, Wim van den This book is about choice. Undoubtedly, to decide lies at the heart of existentialism. Do we choose, or are we set? Both. Defining existentialism, a word coined by the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel in 1943, is irrelevant and impossible. Immaterial because an objectifying stance or "God's Eye" on the matter is absent. Unfeasible because existentialists hold a wide range of divergent positions when answering its two basic queries :
Who am I...