Looks at the two streams of extistentialist philosophy, examining their origins and the philosophers who are connected to these ideas.
Existentialism grapples with the absurdity of modern human conditions. The philosophy of existentialism surfaced predominantly in the post-World War II Europe, though it had its roots in late nineteenth century philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Heidegger. In the post-War period, existentialism engaged in a new form of inquiry into the nature of being to discover meanings of individual existence.