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Karl Jaspers
Key existential themes: Transcendence, limit situations, the Encompassing. Existential works: Philosophy, Way to Wisdom, The Perennial Scope of Philosophy
Søren Kierkegaard
Key existential themes: Subjectivity, faith vs. reason, stages of life's way. Existential works: Fear and Trembling, The Sickness Unto Death, Either/Or
Friedrich Nietzsche
Key existential themes: Will to power, eternal recurrence, the Übermensch. Existential works: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Gay Science
Gabriel Marcel
Key existential themes: The mystery of being, secondary reflection, presence. Existential works: The Philosophy of Existentialism, Being and Having, The Mystery of Being
Albert Camus
Key existential themes: Absurdism, rebellion, the individual. Existential works: The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague
Simone de Beauvoir
Key existential themes: Ambiguity, feminism, ethics of ambiguity. Existential works: The Second Sex, The Ethics of Ambiguity, She Came to Stay
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Key existential themes: Free will, suffering, the search for meaning. Existential works: Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
Jean-Paul Sartre
Key existential themes: Freedom, bad faith, responsibility. Existential works: Being and Nothingness, Nausea, Existentialism is a Humanism
Martin Heidegger
Key existential themes: Dasein, being-in-the-world, the question of Being. Existential works: Being and Time, The Question Concerning Technology
Miguel de Unamuno
Key existential themes: The individual vs. the universal, the tragic sense of life, immortality. Existential works: The Tragic Sense of Life, San Manuel Bueno, Martyr
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