Richard Appignanesi, Oscar Zarate, Introducing Existentialism, Totem Books, 2001 1.

Nietzsche: a philosopher, to deserve our respect, must preach by example. [3] 2. Could it be that the residue popularity of Existentialism today continues from a legacy of words that still have a power to scandalize? Anguish, despair, anxiety, the absurd, authenticity, nothingness, and so on, are literary features that have almost have the status of genuine categories. [14] 3. Is no one an Existentialist? Camus >> I call the Existential attitude philosophical suicide. How else to start from the worlds lack of meaning and end up by finding a meaning and depth to it. Sartre >> The only philosophy today is Marxism. Until now, Existentialism has been a parasitical ideology of its margin. Heidegger >> Thinking lets Being be that must be understood as my irrevocable distance from Existentialism. [36] 4. I offer a paradox. Existentialism is the false memory syndrome of philosophy. Existentialism originates by infidelity to Edmund Husserls phenomenology. [37] 5. Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (1935) --- here he speaks of the first Existentialists whom he names Irrationals [41] 6. Heidegger exalts death, says the Marxist philosopher T. W. Adorno (1903-69) and transforms it into a professional secret for academics. [77] !!! 2 read Sartre Search for a Method (1960) 2 read Papa Pius XII encyclical Humani generis (1950) condemns Existentialism St. John of the Cross (1542-91) noche obscura dark night of the soul 7. Speaking of deception Deception is always possible by the negativity of free consciousness. Simply, I have the choice of lying to you. The lie is the proof that consciousness exists undeceived in me by nature of its hidden intention from you; and exists for you by an undetected absence of truth. The liar does not exist in the consciousness of his lie, unless he falls victim to it. And here the impossible problem of self-deception begins. Impossible because given the total translucency of consciousness how can I lie to myself without seeing through it at once? [154] 8. if Existentialism gives any promise of rescue from a postmodern ideology of relativism. Existentialism is a false memory syndrome but of philosophy itself awaiting its interminable recovery from skepticism. [170] 9. Anything which seeks to impose essential meaning on existence should be unmasked as literature. [171]

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