ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on a brief survey of the main current. Existentialist philosophy, although in various ways related to the existentialist experience, is partly a result of purely theoretical currents. The new techniques foster the flowering of the new sensibility. As a full-grown phenomenon existentialist experience appeared only since the beginning of people's own century in personalities from various parts of Europe. The existentialist experience is an individual, even extremely subjective, experience, and, curiously enough, at the same time an abstract experience. It is an abstract experience although it starts with physical sensations, and, in fact, reaches down to the very bottom of physical existence. Just as the growing malaise was intrinsically connected with self-analysis and psychological introspection, the developing artistic techniques yield new psychological insights. The luxuriant growth of the new sensibility has brought forth the most admirable artistic creations which have enriched and deepened not only the life experience but the reality of the life itself.