American Existentialism Real or Fiction- August 28, 2005 Were the French Existentialists correct in concluding that the "American character swaggered with confidence and naive optimism" Sartre observed, "evil is not an American concept. There is no pessimism in America regarding human nature and social organization." Beauvoir chimed in that Americans had no "feeling for sin and for remorse." And Camus, thought Americans "lacked a sense of anguishhttp://existentialist.blogspot.com/2005/08/american-existentialism-real-or.html |