Søren Kierkegaard
1813 – 1855 · Denmark · Philosophy, Theology
First existentialist; wrote on anxiety, despair and the leap of faith.
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Inherited from1
- G. W. F. Hegel
1770 – 1831 · Philosophy
Kierkegaard's whole authorship is a protest against the Hegelian system's erasure of the individual.
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- Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 – 1980 · Philosophy, Literature
Existence preceding essence restates Kierkegaard's primacy of the single individual.
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