Research Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Gauhati University, India
Online published on 22 April, 2013.
Existentialism is a philosophy about the concrete individual. It defends the intrinsic value of what its main proponent Sartre calls the “Free Organic Individual”. On 29th October 1945 Sartre delivered a public lecture entitled “Is Existentialism a Humanism?” It attempted to answer the objections of Sartre's leading critics from both the Communists and the Catholics that this new philosophy was the incarnation of bourgeois individualism.
