Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

An existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, biographer, and literary critic. He was a key figure in the philosophy of existentialism and Marxism. Also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory and literary studies.


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  • Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer of the French Navy, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer.
  • As a teenager in the 1920s, Sartre became attracted to philosophy upon reading Henri Bergson's essay Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness.

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Biography
Camus and Sartre


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In the first listed article the author illustrates Sartre's life in a nutshell: how he became an existentialist philosopher, etc. He was very influential and many believed in what he had to say. In the second article, the author focuses on one of Sartre's friends by the name of Camus. The author shows how Camus and Sartre were the best of friends but that all ended in a quarrel because of the difference in how each of them viewed violence.

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