What is meant by the term existentialism? Most people who use the word would be rather embarrassed if they had to explain it, since, now that the wor… - Jean-Paul Sartre

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What is meant by the term existentialism? Most people who use the word would be rather embarrassed if they had to explain it, since, now that the word is all the rage, even the work of a musician or painter is being called existentialist. A gossip columnist in Clartés signs himself The Existentialist, so that by this time the word has been so stretched and has taken on so broad a meaning, that it no longer means anything at all.