Angst

For existentialists, angst is simply part and parcel of life’s absurdity. So how does one find meaning in such a condition?

Haidar Bagir

March 13, 2023

IT was a small modest theater building in Bloomington, Indiana, in 2000. With a sibling, I watched a production of No Exit (Huis Clos) by French existentialist, Jean-Paul Sartre. The stage was small and set with a nearly empty space, quite dark throughout the performance: almost representing, at least psychologically, the situation of hell that it aimed to portray. 

In the story, four characters, who have already been condemned to hell, con

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