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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern Philosophy
SchoolExistentialism, Marxism

Main interests

Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, Phenomenology, Ontology

Notable ideas

"Existence precedes essence"
"Bad faith"
"Nothingness"

Influences

  • Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Jaspers, De Beauvoir, Camus, Kojève, Flaubert, Céline, Merleau-Ponty, Dos Passos

Influenced

  • De Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Frantz Fanon, R.D. Laing, Iris Murdoch, André Gorz, Alain Badiou, Fredric Jameson, Michael Jackson, Albert Camus, Kenzaburo Oe, Doris Lessing, William S. Burroughs, Emmanuel Lévinas

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a Frenchexistentialistphilosopher, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and critic. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1964, but refused it, saying "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution".[1] He was a Marxist and an atheist.

Sartre's life

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Jean Paul Sartre biography
Philosophy ~ Existentialism

Jean Paul Sartre biography
Philosophy ~ Existentialism

Jean Paul Sartre was born in Paris, June 21, 1905 as the first child of a marriage entered into a little over a year previously. His father, Jean-Baptiste, had meanwhile died of an infection contracted whilst serving in the French navy, Jean Paul grew up in the home of his maternal grandfather, Karl Schweitzer.

This Karl Schwietzer was a professor of German language at the Sorbonne, the author of numerous published works, and also an uncle of the celebrated medical missionary Albert Schwietzer.

Other circumstances than the demise of his father also conspired to make Sartre's childhood difficult. He was noticeably small in stature and obviously cross-eyed besides being over-intelligent and bookish. His mother was also cloyingly affectionate.

The difficulty Sartre found in gaining acceptance, and his precociousness, together with grandfather Karl's tutoring, led to his putting together a book entitles Les Mots (The Words) which related the experience of himself and h

Jean-Paul Sartre

French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Sartre in 1965

Born

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre


(1905-06-21)21 June 1905

Paris, France

Died15 April 1980(1980-04-15) (aged 74)

Paris, France

EducationÉcole normale supérieure (BA, MA)
PartnerSimone de Beauvoir (1929–1980)
AwardsNobel Prize for Literature (1964, declined)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, existential phenomenology,[1]hermeneutics,[1]Western Marxism, anarchism, anarcho-pacifism[2]

Main interests

Metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, consciousness, self-consciousness, literature, political philosophy, ontology

Notable ideas

Bad faith, "existence precedes essence", nothingness, "Hell is other people", situation, transcendence of the ego ("every positional consciousness of an object is a non-positional consciousness of itself"),[3&

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