You’ll be reintroduced to them on the road here: Martin Heidegger, the father of existentialism, whose cascading influence across France and beyond eventually made us all seekers of authenticity; Albert Camus, who named our experience of the absurd, spent the early part of his career wrestling with Augustine, and perhaps never stopped; Hannah Arendt, who probed the nature of love and friendship in conversation with Augustine; Jacques Derrida, enfant terrible of postmodernism, who deconstructed and unsettled our confidence in eternal verities and would later return to consider the secrets his
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