“There is seldom talk about the responsibility that many writers were forced to assume after 1945, when all roads seemed already beaten and worn out. Iris Murdoch was one of those who most seriously took the job of rethinking the European tradition. Her contribution, at this point in the 21st century, deserves to be reconsidered in light of the dangers that now threaten us.
ANDREU JAUME, Free Letters
The rise of existentialism in European culture in the years after World War II can be explained, to a large extent, by the insights that this school of thought offered when facing vitally the terrible consequences of the rise of fascism and conflict. most devastating weaponry known to date.
Derived largely from romanticism — after all, the ultimate endeavor of philosophers like Hegel or Schelling was actually the search for individual freedom — existentialism also had ...read more