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as to nietzsche and existentialism there were actually others before the mad german, kierkegaard namely as a christian existentialist, and then of course dostoyevsky particularly 'notes from the underground'
if you're interested in existentialism one of the most extreme, and completely unkown who worked before all the well known western existentialists, is a Russian Jew by the name of Lev Shestov - irrationality and what not, fascinating stuff.
As a North American it's hard to deny the influence of James and Percy, seeing as that basically is the philosophy lived by %90 of us...
Personally I live my day to day lief as pragmatically as possible and try to run as far intellectually away from Pragmatism as possible. Existentialism, in it's quasi-religious forms is what I'm reading now, Nikolai Berdyaev, another Russian. I'm quite fascinated by the notion that Knowledge obtained through faith superceds that of reason and the implausibility of the objectification of Knowledge...
akk, I've rambled into never never land.
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