What was the first existentialist piece of literature?

I think it was Sartor Resartus.

my bet would be on the bhagavad gita. "What is this weakness, Arjuna? It is not becoming of you. Shake off this cowardice. Stand up!" [sic]

Im pretty sure there is a cave painting showing a man sitting down alone, holding his head between his two hands.

>>187 Probably this anon is right. But as a philosophy I think it was with Thales of Miletus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? 4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. Although it goes against this existential credo and finds the solution in the love of God, it's a pretty interesting read and being a blibcal book, it's a bit closer to our cultural landscape than the Bagavad Gita (not saying the ecclesiastes is anterior).

>>229 Sounds more like first baroque writer "Vanity of vanities" - that's the keynote of baroque >and finds the solution in the love of God like in baroque Not every pessimist is an existentialist brother, also it's not only about the topic but also about a way of expression

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. All these problems you mention and suffer withmost, are mere problems of language and its limitations.

gilgamesh

>>723 why do you think so? please elaborate.

>>479 >Wittgenstein Insane fedora tier.

>>995 t. Joel Osteen

>>996 >Wittgenstein

>>1091 >Ray Monk writes that Karl's aim was to turn his sons into captains of industry; they were not sent to school lest they acquire bad habits, but were educated at home to prepare them for work in Karl's industrial empire. Three of the five brothers would later commit suicide. >Johannes Brahms said of the family, whom he visited regularly: "They seemed to act towards one another as if they were at court." >fuarrrk, better just call him personally insane to discredit everything he did. It's not like the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is relevant anyway.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest written story currently known to us: >Over his friend, Enkidu, Gilgamesh cried bitterly, >"I am going to die!--am I not like Enkidu?! >Deep sadness penetrates my core, >I fear death," The Book Of Job, which is believed to be as old as Giglamesh (the oral tradition that is, not Job as we have it now) too, is thoroughly existentialist.

>>1092 >Wittgenstein Insane fedora deluxe tier.

>>1092 >my fave philosopher just got called insane >better make an unrelated swipe at an unrelated philosopher

>>231 What's making you say love of God is a solution antithetical to existentialism? I've never studied the philosophy as such but I've read some writers I'd seen called existentialist among which was Kierkegaard who found love of God to be the answer to his existential questions.

>>1211 Someone called Wittgenstein insane. The response you responded to referred how the Wittgenstein siblings likely suffered a lot of abuse and most committed suicide. All of which is about the Wittgensteins. The weakness of >>1192 is that it presumes people will find it indecent to dismiss someone entirely as insane when they have suffered a great deal that likely lead to actual mental issues but their ideas stand on their own merits regardless of that. In contrast to someone that is just acting retarded or absurdly being called insane. You are arguing in bad faith to assert that the philosopher being called insane and the philosopher mentioned in the post you are responding to are different when they are both Wittgenstein.

>>1220 >Wittgenstein