Prescott Library: Interwar Years (Clark, Laffey, Michel, Thomas): Existentialism (Philosophy)

Questions about Existentialism:

What was the origin of existentialism (consider Jean Paul Sartre and Karl Jaspers).
What was its impact?
What was its critique and guiding ideas?

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