William Barrett Quote

The bomb reveals the dreadful and total contingency of human existence. Existentialism is the philosophy of the atomic age.


Chapter Three, The Testimony Of Modern Art, p. 57 - Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958)


The bomb reveals the dreadful and total contingency of human existence. Existentialism is the philosophy of the atomic age.

The bomb reveals the dreadful and total contingency of human existence. Existentialism is the philosophy of the atomic age.

The bomb reveals the dreadful and total contingency of human existence. Existentialism is the philosophy of the atomic age.

The bomb reveals the dreadful and total contingency of human existence. Existentialism is the philosophy of the atomic age.