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Editorial

Existing in the World

by Rick Lewis

When most of us think of existentialism, we imagine a bunch of broody French intellectuals in rollneck sweaters, sitting around a table in a café on Paris’s Left Bank, smoking Gauloises and drinking endless coffees as they stare into the abyss within the human soul. And this is broadly accurate, but there is more to it than that. Existentialism continues to be the most popular and best recognized school of philosophy, and we get complaints if we don’t publish an issue about it at least once every couple of years. You are holding that issue.

Existentialism started not in France but in the previous century in Denmark, with the highly unorthodox Christian thinker Søren Kierkegaard.

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