Interdisciplinary efforts, for all their ostensible appeal, are more often praised than practiced, especially when it comes to combining the humanities and sciences. Nonetheless, connecting two ...

I am all alone, not in a despairing existentialist place, though sometimes I go there. No, I am all alone in the intersection of circles in a Venn diagram. The first circle represents the set of ...

One of the core things that makes us human is our quest to understand our identity—who we are. Try to describe the things that make up who you are and what you love to do. For fun, I will do that now: ...

Existential dread can manifest in many forms. This kind of intense trauma and stress generally comes from a major existential crisis. Existential dread can be scary, because it may feel like life ...

The image of the existentialist as a cafe-dwelling, chain-smoking, beret-wearing intellectual type comes largely from Sartre (Getty) Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80) is the philosopher whose work – ...