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expositions-1185	none	5. Bellow, Kierkegaard, and American Estheticism	2012	13	.pdf	application/pdf	6182	279	57	Bellow’s existentialism follows Kierkegaard, whose concepts I use in my examination because Sammler refers to them explicitly, in suggesting that the defining task of human life was to become a “true” or “authentic” self: a self that is passionately oriented toward and formed in light of an encounter with the source of existence and truth. 2 If human beings are “established by another” – which Kierkegaard (and Mr. Sammler) believed to be the case – another relation, viz.	cache/expositions-1185.pdf	txt/expositions-1185.txt