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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: existential and postmodern individual
  name:
    name part: Herring, Lesley Virginia, 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: McDermott, John J.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
  abstract: The theories of existentialism and postmodernism seem like very different ideas at first glance. Existentialism is a philosophy of individuals, while postmodernism is a theory focused more on society and less on individual existence. In this thesis, I will show that both of these ideas can be merged together to be seen as an individual philosophy. Using theories from each philosophical camp, I will describe both the existential and postmodern being. I will explain characteristics of these individuals and explain how they function in society. I will use several philosophers to explain this suchas Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault, and finally, I will discuss The Stranger by Albert Camus. In The Stranger, the main character, Monsieur Meursault, exhibits the qualities of both types of individuals. I will use him as an example of the type of person that emerges from the philosophical ideas of existentialism and postmodernism. I analyze Meursault through the eyes of both the existentialist and the postmodernist, and conclude that Meursault personifies the traits and characteristics that are specific to these philosophies.
  note: by Lesley Virginia Herring.
  note: "Major Subject: Philosophy"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Sep. 21, 2005.)
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: System requirements: World Wide Web access and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: M. A. Texas A&M University 2005.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis).
  subject:
    topic: Major philosophy
  subject:
    topic: postmodernism
  subject:
    topic: existentialism
  subject:
    topic: individual
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2371
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 051025
    record change date: 20151102142231.0
    record identifier: in00002087650