Antedating of "Existentialism"

[Fred Shapiro]

existentialism (OED 1941)

1929 Edward B. Titchener _Systematic Psychology_ 257  My attempt sprang,
indeed, from a rather desperate desire somehow to bring intentionalism and
existentialism together at close quarters.

Fred SHapiro


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