Sam Spade, Existential Hero?

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Sam Spade, Existential Hero?

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Michael Rockler scrutinizes the private investigator’s existentialist credentials.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/75/Sam_Spade_Existential_Hero
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Sam Spade, Existential Hero?

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Yep, along with a few other fictional detectives, including Mike Hammer.

'Hero' is a bit much, though...just plain old 'existentialist' fits better.

Rule of thumb (I think): the one who who sez he's an existentialist, probably isn't; the one who just 'does', probably is.
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