Existential America Robert Stone and from his correspondence with

and from his correspondence with individuals with AS

Laurie Ann Britt-Smith

then make up one of your own

Important underlying theoretical material

Existential America Robert Stone and from his correspondence withEurope's leading existential thinkersJean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camusall felt that Americans were too self confident and shallow to accept their philosophy of responsibility, choice, and the absurd. ''There is no pessimism in America regarding human nature and social organization,'' Sartre remarked in 1950, while Beauvoir wrote that Americans had no ''feeling for sin and for remorse'' and Camus derided American materialism and