Existential thinkers, such as Søren Kierkegaard, Gabriel Marcel, and Paul Tillich, have seen God manifested in experience in the form of a power that overcomes estrangement and enables human beings to fulfill themselves as integrated personalities.
From this point of view, the substantive histories adopted by existential thinkers as different as Heidegger and Sartre should perhaps be read less as scientific accounts, defensible in third-person terms, than as articulations of the historical situation from the perspective of what that situation is taken to demand, given the engaged commitment of their authors.
Reading books by existential thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard, and Jean-Paul Sartre will be helpful in understanding what existentialism means.
Identifying herself as an author rather than as a philosopher and calling herself the midwife of Sartre's existential ethics rather than a thinker in her own right, Beauvoir's place in philosophy had to be won against her word.
For a wife, Levin, the existential seeker, looked not for a thinker like himself but for what is traditionally feminine, what is "wifely".
Without raising his voice above a murmur, this artist-thinker gives the condition of exile an existential, universalist weight.
In addition, after years of being out of fashion in France, existential motifs have once again become prominent in the work of leading thinkers.
These and similar existential quandaries will be mulled over by a panel of humanists, historians, free thinkers and journalists, using George Lucas's simplistic, morally monochrome fairytale as a springboard for wider theological discourse.
On this particular point Heidegger's existential analytic is a shared reference that brings together otherwise diverse (or, indeed, antagonistic) thinkers.
