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Thought And Verse: French Poetry In Conversation With French Existentialist Philosophy, Maxwell E. Edmonds
Thought And Verse: French Poetry In Conversation With French Existentialist Philosophy, Maxwell E. Edmonds
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Thought and Verse: French Poetry in Conversation with French Existentialist Philosophy
Maxwell Edmonds
Faculty Sponsor: Karen de Bruin, French Language & Literature
What is the meaning of life? Does God exist? How can we live authentically and with purpose? How can we conduct our day to day lives, while faced with our own mortality? These are several of the principle themes focused upon within existentialist philosophy, the philosophy of existing as a mortal human being.
I chose to study existentialist philosophy through the lens of one of my other interests: French poetry. This combination has allowed me to approach both …