5 sentences with “existential”

Bismarck (along with many other North Germans) regarded Catholicism as alien to German culture and an existential threat to German unity.

Beauvoir critiqued this non-status of women in The Second Sex, writing from an existential perspective in which freedom and choice were at the heart of human existence.

As the rich got richer, they bought up land and sometimes even forced poorer citizens off their farms. Thus, there was an existential threat to Rome's armies, and with it, to Rome itself.

Compared to World War I, there was a big difference in the way World War II was perceived by most civilians on the home front: it was an existential battle for democracy and freedom for most Americans, but for most European nations it was a war for survival in itself.

Although the existentialists themselves continued to write, debate and participate in politics (most became Marxist intellectuals and supporters of third world uprisings against colonialism), existential philosophy eventually fell out of fashion in favour of various types of theory that eventually became loosely grouped as "postmodernism".