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I never understood the utility that comes from the post-war existentialism in the philosophical tradition. Can someone help me understand the work of the like of Foucault and Heidegger? What is even the main point of their work? I can immediately grasp every other philosophical tradition and its significance all the way up untill the post-modern type thinkers.

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*crack* *sip* oh yeah, I love my heidegger phenomenological 5000 and my foucault filtration pro 5000. Yeah I just put a zoomer in and get a zero ultra out.

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Foucault is nominally about power relations as mediated by social institutions. He's not an existentialist per se. There may be some existential implied by his conclusions--freedom, self-realization etc--but it's not the subject of his work. Heidegger was more concerned with ontology, being, which he almost refuses to define, or even define the proper way to approach it, other than through poetry, in his postwar work. I suppose like Foucault he sees certain social institutions as inhibiting our proper perception of ourselves as not simply a collection of metrics, but again thats only tangentially a concern.

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From collective overviews, transition had followed its course back to individual infinity, where there are no bounds of morals or depth. Thoughts become more radical and abstract, and so the capabilities.

I'm sure the ever so increasing ability of man to literally will himself out of existence had reached a point where he had to step back and look at what he is doing in the first place and where he is headed, which is what I think existentialism is.