The meeting will discuss the key ideas of existentialism representatives - from Kierkegaard to 20th-century thinkers. Existentialism was born as an attempt to honestly talk about what happens to a person when familiar supports collapse, and the question "why all this" arises. The lecture leader, Konstantin Kazachenko, will show the logic of the emergence of this philosophical direction. First, listeners will understand why thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries spoke about loneliness, anxiety, and freedom. Through examples from the texts of Søren Kierkegaard and his followers, it will become clearer how philosophy gradually began to describe specific human experiences - choice, guilt, fear of the future. Then the expert will discuss the key concepts of existentialism: freedom, personal responsibility, alienation from the world and others, anxiety, absurdity. With their help, philosophers tried to describe the state of a person who found himself alone with his doubts and without ready-made scenarios. The host will also raise the topic of existential "fashion": he will explain why radical individualism, which is sometimes associated with this direction, can lead to dead ends in personal relationships and public discussions. Participants will get acquainted with examples of texts in which philosophers themselves tried to find a way out of these dead ends. Participants will be able to ask questions about how to work with existential motives in literature and cinema, why the ideas of this direction are still relevant in psychotherapy, and where the boundary lies between philosophical reflection and fashionable posturing. Where to go in Moscow is known by KudaGo.