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courtneyfalling 's review for:
Existentialism Is a Humanism
by Jean-Paul Sartre
challenging
informative
reflective
fast-paced
I was really into existentialism around my sophomore and junior years of high school, mostly because I feel like the emphasis on individual choice and responsibility, good and bad, was what I needed at the time. I realized in finally reading this in detail that the openness of existentialism—where the future is fundamentally blank and neutral, up to us—helped set me up for where I currently am with leftism/socialism and radical optimism and personal choice with political weight. Which is cool and I still have a soft spot for this, even if it's not the most infallible or wonderful intellectual development ever.