Existentialism and Moder Literature

The essays in Existentialism and Modern Literature by Davis McElroy were originally written as lectures. McElroy uses the word ΓÇ£GodΓÇ¥ in the sense that God governs man from within by making each of us a unique experiment in humanity. Existentialism is a term that has been applied to the work of a number of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, took the human subject ΓÇö not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual and his or her conditions of existence ΓÇö as a starting point for philosophical thought. The titles of these lectures are ΓÇ£The Problem of ManΓÇÖs Existence,ΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£Modern Literature: A Warning,ΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£Existentialism and Modern Literature.ΓÇ¥