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'''Atheist existentialism''' or '''atheistic existentialism''' is a kind of [[existentialism]] which diverged from the [[Christian existentialism|Christian]] works of '''[[Søren Kierkegaard]]''' and recasted into atheist form.<ref>[http://atheism.about.com/od/typesofexistentialism/a/christian.htm]</ref>
 
The [[philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard]] provided itsexistentialism's theoretical foundation in the [[19th century]]. It became evident in atheist form after the 1943 publication of ''[[Being and Nothingness]]'' of '''[[Jean-Paul Sartre]]''' and later explicitly alluded to in ''[[Existentialism is a Humanism]]'' in 1946. But also previously Sartre wrote works in the spirit of atheistic existentialism, i.e. the novel ''[[Nausea]]'' (1938) and the short stories in his 1939 collection ''[[The Wall (book)|The Wall]]''. After Sartre in such spirit are the works of '''[[Albert Camus]]''' and also [[Simone de Beauvoir]] can be considered a writer in the spirit of atheist existentialism.
 
The novel ''The Nausea'' is in some ways a [[manifesto]] of atheism in [[existentialism]] and is an important books in this way. Sartre deal with a dejected researcher (Antoine Roquentin) in a anonymous french town, where Roquentin becomes conscious of the fact that the vegetable nature as a root tree, and obviously every inanimate objects, are indifferent towards him and his tormented existence. Besides they show to be totally extraneous to any human meaning, while no human conscience can see something significant in them.