Week Four Entries

Many blogs are digests of material found elsewhere on the web, including links to that material. For this week's entry, do a little informal research on the work or thought of an important existentialist, give a summary in approximately 250 words, and provide the link to the source you are summarizing. Please be sure to pick a source that a classmate has not yet selected (that means only one person may link to the Wikipedia, for instance, on a given existentialist). Obviously, the earlier you publish your post, the more options for links you will have, and the more research that will be available to all before the essay.

Your commentaries (due Tuesday as usual) should give an evaluation of the linked source (e.g., helpful or not, sufficiently detailed or not, readable or not, credible or not), with an evaluative claim and at least one stated reason.

Potential thinkers to research include: Jean-Paul Sartre, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, José Ortega y Gasset. There may be others you stumble across whose work is relevant to ours.