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Nicola Abbagnano
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Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy, University of Turin, Italy, 1936–76. Foremost Italian Existentialist philosopher. Author of Critical Existentialism and others.

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Jean-Paul Sartre sits at a cafe with a cup of coffee and a notebook, a pipe in his mouth.
Existentialism, any of various philosophies, most influential in continental Europe from about 1930 to the mid-20th century, that have in common an interpretation of human existence in the world that stresses its concreteness and its problematic character. According to existentialism: (1) Existence…
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