Jean-paul sartre philosophy
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Jean-Paul Sartre
(1905-1980)
Synopsis
Born on June 21, 1905, in Paris, France, Jean-Paul Sartre was a pioneering intellectual and proponent of existentialism who championed leftist causes in France and other countries. He wrote a number of books, including the highly influential Being and Nothingness, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964, though he turned it down. He had a relationship with noted intellectual Simone de Beauvoir.
Early Life
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre, a naval officer, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer. Sartre lost his father in infancy. After her husband’s death, Anne-Marie moved back to her parents' house in Meudon to raise her son.
As a young man, Sartre became interested in philosophy after reading Henri Bergson’s essay “Time and Free Will.” He earned a doctorate in philosophy in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure, absorbing ideas from Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger, among others.
In 1929 at the École Normale, he met Simone de Beauvoir, a student at the Sorbonne who went on to become a c
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Jean-Paul Sartre
1. Life and Works
Sartre’s life has been examined by many biographies, starting with Simone de Beauvoir’s Adieux (and, subsequently, Cohen-Solal 1985; Levy 2003; Flynn 2014; Cox 2019). Sartre’s own literary “life” exemplifies trends he thematized in both Words and Being and Nothingness, summed up by his claim that “to be dead is to be prey for the living” (Sartre 1943 [1956: 543]). Sartre himself was one of the first to undertake such an autobiographical effort, via his evocation of his own childhood in Words (1964a)—in which Sartre applies to himself his method of existential psychoanalysis, thereby complicating this life/death binary.
Like many of his generation, Sartre lived through a series of major cultural and historical events that his existential philosophy responded to and attempted to shape. He was born in 1905 and died in 1980, spanning most of the twentieth century and the trajectory that the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm refers to as the “age of extremes”, a period that was als
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Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
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Jean-Paul Sartre | |
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Sartre in 1965 | |
| Born | Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (1905-06-21)21 June 1905 Paris, France |
| Died | 15 April 1980(1980-04-15) (aged 74) Paris, France |
| Education | École normale supérieure (BA, MA) |
| Partner | Simone de Beauvoir (1929–1980) |
| Awards | Nobel Prize for Literature (1964, declined) |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental 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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