He characterized this in terms of the perspective of the `existing individual , and it is from this special use of the term `existence ' to describe a distinctively human mode of being that existentialism gets its name . Kierkegaard 's successors include the German philosophers Heidegger and Jaspers and the French philosophers Sartre and Marcel , who actually coined the term `existentialism . Kierkegaard rejected the claim , which he took to be Hegel 's , that we can look forward to a time when the...











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