@article{article_1670032, title={Analysis of Pink Floyd’s Lyrics in the Context of Kierkegaard’s Existentialism}, journal={Current Perspectives in Social Sciences}, volume={29}, pages={1–11}, year={2025}, DOI={10.53487/atasobed.1670032}, author={Uyanık, Necip}, keywords={Pink Floyd, Kierkegaard, Varoluş}, abstract={Pink Floyd has a unique style and perspective as a musical group. By addressing the humanitarian crises of the 20th century in their lyrics, they incorporated distinct issues such as war, economy, education, family, and politics into their agenda. However, it is also possible to state that their lyrics focus on the pains of individual existence. By examining this through sample lyrics, we can see how existential relationships are revealed. The fundamental problem of existential philosophy is to assert that human beings are individuals and that this should be a crucial consideration for philosophy. One of the first to make this claim was Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, and it is possible to state that he evaluated the human problem of the 19th century in this context. In this study, existential themes in Pink Floyd’s song lyrics (Hey You, Time, Echoes, Us and Them) were analyzed by Kierkegaard’s existentialism. Therefore, this study aims to think together and discuss Pink Floyd, the influential music group of the 20th century, in the existential philosophy of Kierkegaard, who lived in the 19th century and witnessed.}, number={4}, publisher={Atatürk Üniversitesi}