Self-Encounter: A Study in Existentialism (1961)

A wonderful 1961 show with Hazel Barnes called Self-Encounter which provides an introductory exploration of existentialism.

Existentialists take human existence and the human condition to be a fundamental issue. They tend to be radical individualists who privilege our lived experience and choice. They focus on themes such as: freedom, authenticity, the individual, meaning, anxiety, alienation, death, dread, the absurd, contingency, and nihilism. They are often also suspicious of any fixed, pre-determined human nature, objective/universal values, and abstract philosophical systems. Some of the most important existentialist thinkers (or at least thinkers associated with existentialism) include Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Karl Jaspers, Albert Camus, and Simone de Beauvoir. (My Description)

Chapters:
00:00 Being & Nothingness
28:47 The Far Side of Despair
57:35 To Leap or Not to Leap
1:26:41 Bad Faith
1:55:39 Hell is Others
2:24:46 A Psychology of Freedom
2:53:39 Responsible Freedom
3:22:29 Engaged Freedom
3:51:25 All Men are Mortal
4:20:23 Sin Without God

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[Philosophy_Overdose]

Chapters:
00:00 Being & Nothingness
28:47 The Far Side of Despair
57:35 To Leap or Not to Leap
1:26:41 Bad Faith
1:55:39 Hell is Others
2:24:46 A Psychology of Freedom
2:53:39 Responsible Freedom
3:22:29 Engaged Freedom
3:51:25 All Men are Mortal
4:20:23 Sin Without God

[tom-kzpb]

Some philosophers think that existentialism is passe, but if the heart of it is the struggle of human beings, who need meaning, to cope in world that has no intrinsic meaning, it will always be relevant, because that is most basic and enduring struggle of human existence.

[pedrokeil]

Some people think that existentialism is bullshit, until they hear that song, or remember that thing, and suddenly they are all wrapped up in existence and there's nothing else to do but to feel that feeling. The feeling of feeling something.

[cheri]

1. "The world today does not make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
Pablo Picasso
2."If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would faint."
Mrs. Pablo Picasso

I recommend this to be placed on CNN Sunday Night Special.
Even NBC World News.
Dr. Helen Barnes!!! & cast !!!

Bravo! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
🙏❤️🌎🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵

[retarteddwarf]

It amazes me the level of intellect in this old tv programming. You would be hard pressed to find anything on this spectrum as a part of modern television programming. The dumbing down of today couldn't be more obvious. Sad...

[jamesmiller]

Some believe the 60s was the decade of rock ‘n’ roll, and it was the beginning. But it was really the decade of jazz which this program uses to set the mood.

[thadtuiol]

This is still one of the best educational pieces of American TV ever.

[richardburt]

I bought her book when I was in school probably in 1971. I read it on my own in college. As a freshman, I took a lecture course on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and Being and Time taught by Hubert Dreyfus. It's great to see this video online. Thank you for posting it.

[miklmiklmtrcycl]

Can I just say thank you to the sound engineers, each and every one that produced this gorgeous audio.

[MichaelYoder]

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time." T.S. Eliot

[godofmarshmallows]

Thank you for making this available. You’ve done us all a service 🙏🏻

[sydneymorey]

An accidental encounter on YouTube. So brilliant and exiting, even could be said life changing. YouTube you beaut. Cheers SBM.

[oswaldullman]

Gotta love the several shallow comments pertaining to the late & remarkable Hazel Barnes' physical APPEARANCE.

[bobaldo]

This era, the early 60's, was my favorite. The mood of that era was still captured best by music:"cool jazz", as in Kind Of Blue, (although the resurgence of the popularity of folk music was just beginning), and by this very wordy, but introspective, brand of philosophy. For bohemians it was the end of the "beat" era, and the beginnings of what became the "hippie" era. I look back on it with nostalgia. Many of us felt that with the election of the young, hip JFK, the nation had turned a corner. Yes we were wrong. That all ended in Dallas. But just for a short while, there was the sense of a better future for everyone.

[JLizard]

I remember Hazel Barnes as the translator of Schopenhauer's Pessimist's Handbook. It's so awesome to see Hazel in this video. Thank you!

[threeworlds]

Hazel Barnes paves a way to religious existentialism, a woman of beauty in literary and intellectual expression, passing the torch, mainly from Jean Paul Sartre to a new generation. I would like to help her with that, by having faith in human beings (some of them) struggling with god is to be the centre of attention.

[elizabethmansfield]

This is completely brilliant! Hazel Barnes is a star!! Why didn’t I have this when I was studying Satre (Huis Clos) and Camus (L’Etranger) in my final year of high school? But I am very happy to savour it all now.

[nickstoli]

Imagine if we invest the same amount of time with these videos as we do with sports and reality tv?

[vogelofficial]

Wow she’s brilliant. Thanks for posting this.

[JLM]

What a great piece of public television. Thank you for uploading. It makes me even more thrilled as it was produced in Denver, Colorado where I'm from. Who'd of thought we were gettin' existential out on the Front Range way back when, Ha!