This movement's treatment of the intersubjective self discussed lovers experiencing each other as ambiguous subjects and others, and the look that brings self-awareness of being-for-others.
This movement's treatment of the intersubjective self discussed lovers experiencing each other as ambiguous subjects and others, and the look that brings self-awareness of being-for-others. One of its early thinkers urged a leap to faith to overcome despair, a state of sin. Rejecting the Cartesian ego, a proponent of this movement described the authentic being-for-itself as a being who rejects bad faith and creates its own meaning in an absurd world through its own existence. That idea is expressed in this movement's maxim "existence precedes essence". For 10 points, name this philosophy espoused by Soren Kierkegaard, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. 
This movement's treatment of the intersubjective self discussed lovers experiencing each other as ambiguous subjects and others, and the look that brings self-awareness of being-for-others.
 existentialism 