Talk:Black existentialism

Dubious
I can't see how this article is anything to do with existentialism, it lacks any references and generally is a candidate for deletion. I have tagged it for the moment -- Snowded TALK  07:50, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

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Current tagging
Article was more or less at the common niveau of the English wikipedia for such a subject last I checked. Will follow up later. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 14:25, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

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Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., should be included in this article
In his 1960 essay "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence," King described his philosophical influences. In addition to writing a dissertation comparing Tillich and Wieman, he says this:

"During the past decade I also gained a new appreciation for the philosophy of existentialism. My first contact with this philosophy came through my reading of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. Later I turned to a study of Jaspers, Heidegger and Sartre. All of these thinkers stimulated my thinking; while finding things to question in each, I nevertheless learned a great deal from study of them. When I finally turned to a serious study of the works of Paul Tillich I became convinced that existentialism, in spite of the fact that it had become all too fashionable, had grasped certain basic truths about man and his condition that could not be permanently overlooked.

Its understanding of the “finite freedom” of man is one of existentialism's most lasting contributions, and its perception of the anxiety and conflict produced in man's personal and social life as a result of the perilous and ambiguous structure of existence is especially meaningful for our time. The common point in all existentialism, whether it is atheistic or theistic, is that man’s existential situation is a state of estrangement from his essential nature. In their revolt against Hegel's essentialism [it's worth noting that King had taken a seminar on Hegel during graduate school], all existentialists contend that the world is fragmented. History is a series of unreconciled conflicts and man's existence is filled with anxiety and threatened with meaninglessness. While the ultimate Christian answer is not found in any of these existential assertions, there is much here that the theologian can use to describe the true state of man's existence."

The essay was originally published in The Christian Century 1960: Vol 77, p. 439, and appeared in modified form in a couple of other places. The original article can be found here: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/pilgrimage-nonviolence

That these influences and ideas were of continued importance is evidenced by, for example, his use of them in later writings, including the "Letter from Birmingham Jail." PhilosophersHoliday (talk) 16:08, 12 January 2024 (UTC)