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== Notable proponents ==
=== Jean-Paul Sartre ===
[[Jean-Paul Sartre]] is a well-known French philosopher who was concerned with human authenticity and individuality. His novel [[Nausea (novel)|''Nausea'']] is in some ways a [[manifesto]] of atheistic existentialism. It deals with a dejected researcher (Antoine Roquentin) in an anonymous French town, where Roquentin becomes conscious of the fact that nature as well as every inanimate object are indifferent towards him and his tormented existence. The existential angst experienced by the protagonist allows him to eventually understand that meaning exists only when he creates it for himself. Sartre once said "existence precedes essence". What he meant was "that, first of all, man exists,
=== Albert Camus ===
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