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Sartre, Jean-Paul

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French author and philosopher. He was a leading proponent of existentialism . He published his first novel, La Nausée/Nausea (1937), followed by the trilogy Les Chemins de la liberté/Roads to Freedom (1944–45) and many plays, including Les Mouches/The Flies (1943), Huis clos/In Camera (1944), and Les Séquestrés d'Altona/The Condemned of Altona (1960). L'Etre et le néant/Being and Nothingness (1943), his first major philosophical work, sets out a radical doctrine of human freedom. In the later work Critique de la raison dialectique/Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960) he tried to produce a fusion of existentialism and Marxism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, which he declined. Sartre was born in Paris, and was the long-time companion of the feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir . During World War II he was a prisoner for nine months, and on his return from Germany joined the Resistance. As a founder of existentialism, he edited its journal Les Temps modernes/Modern…
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Jean-Paul Sartre is the philosopher whose work - certainly in the English speaking world - largely defined the existentialist movement in the twentieth century. The themes which he explored in his writings - particularly the primacy of individual existence, human freedom, and the lack of objective…
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The French philosopher and man of letters Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) ranks as the most versatile writer and as the dominant influence in three decades of French intellectual life. Jean Paul Sartre was born in Paris on June 21, 1905. His father, a naval officer, died while on a tour of duty in…
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From Philip's Encyclopedia
French philosopher and writer. Sartre was the leading advocate of existentialism . His debut novel, Nausea (1939), depicted man adrift in a godless universe, hostage to his own angst-ridden freedom. Sartre was a fighter in the French Resistance during World War 2. During the war, he began to write…
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From The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
An existential philosopher, playwright, novelist and political activist/polemicist, Sartre for many personified French letters for over forty years. Born in south-central France, he graduated from the Ecole Normal Supérieure in 1929. There he met his lifelong companion, Simone de Beauvoir, one of…
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French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist. Born June 21, 1905, in Paris, Jean-Paul Sartre was educated at the lyceés Henri IV and Louis-le-Grand in Paris and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. After several years teaching in lycées, interrupted by a year at the French Institute in Berlin (1933), …
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From Encyclopedia of Philosophers on Religion
Baptized a Roman Catholic, Sartre was raised (after the death of his father a year later) in the Catholic faith by a mother who had "her own God," a disgustingly "mystical" and anticlerical grandfather, and a skeptical grandmother who, though she "believed in nothing," professed, like the rest of…
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Full text Article ATHEISM

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I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. BACON, Francis Essays (1625). An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. [Attr.] I am still an atheist, thank God. [Attr.] Man is by his constitution…
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Full text Article THOUGHT

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Brain : An apparatus with which we think that we think. BIERCE, Ambrose The Cynic’s Word Book (1906). Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. CONFUCIUS Analects . …
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Full text Article APPEARANCE

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It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. AESOP Fables . Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. AMIS, Kingsley One Fat Englishman (1963). Hair is the first thing. And teeth... …
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Full text Article THE WORLD

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This is a singularly ill-contrived world, but not so ill-contrived as all that. [Attr.] The world is made of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. BRONOWSKI, Jacob The Face of Violence (1954). For the world, I count it not an inn, but an…
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