Milestones of Existentialist Thought

Existentialism

A collection of factual questions regarding the origins, key publications, and primary discoveries within the existentialist tradition.

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8 Questions Medium Ages 16+ Aug 27, 2026

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1 Which 19th-century philosopher is credited with being the first to use the term 'existential' in a modern philosophical context to describe his own thought?

A Søren Kierkegaard
B Friedrich Nietzsche
C Jean-Paul Sartre
D Martin Heidegger

2 Jean-Paul Sartre delivered a famous 1945 lecture that served as the primary manifesto for popularizing the movement; what is the title of this work?

A Being and Nothingness
B Existentialism Is a Humanism
C Nausea
D The Myth of Sisyphus

3 Which philosophical work, published in 1943 by Jean-Paul Sartre, introduced the foundational concepts of 'being-in-itself' and 'being-for-itself'?

A The Ethics of Ambiguity
B The Second Sex
C Being and Nothingness
D No Exit

4 Which Danish author is historically regarded as the 'father of existentialism' for his explorations of individual subjectivity and 'leaps of faith'?

A Albert Camus
B Søren Kierkegaard
C Arthur Schopenhauer
D Karl Jaspers

5 In 1942, Albert Camus published an essay that introduced the concept of the 'Absurd' as the conflict between the human search for meaning and the 'silent' universe; what was the title?

A The Rebel
B The Plague
C The Myth of Sisyphus
D The Stranger

6 Which landmark 1927 publication by Martin Heidegger attempted to define the fundamental 'question of Being' and introduced the concept of Dasein?

A Being and Time
B The Question Concerning Technology
C What Is Metaphysics?
D Pathmarks

7 Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 masterpiece is widely recognized as the first major existentialist analysis of gender; what is the title?

A The Mandarins
B She Came to Stay
C The Second Sex
D Force of Circumstance

8 Friedrich Nietzsche was the first to popularize which specific concept, later adopted by existentialists, regarding the absence of divine governance in human morality?

A The Ubermensch
B The Death of God
C Eternal Recurrence
D Will to Power

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