Existentialism: The New God Creates His Own Nature (History of Modern Philosophy) (Remastered)

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · Sep 22, 2026 · 55m

Tonight’s episode goes straight to the end of the modern road: **Existentialism the “new god” creating his own nature.** We start with **Marcel Duchamp**, who pushed the logic of “no meaning in the outer world” to its absurd conclusion turning junk into “art,” exhibiting a urinal as *Fountain*, and even abandoning language itself because you can’t create words without meaning. Then we move to the heavyweights: **Camus** and **Sartre**. Camus warns we’ve entered “the era of premeditation,” where philosophy can turn **murderers into judges** because once you deny transcendental judgment, you…