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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, US also ; French: [saʁtʁ]; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology). His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."Sartre held an open relationship with prominent feminist and fellow existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre and de Beauvoir challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations of their upbringings, which they considered bourgeois, in both lifestyles and thought. The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity (mauvaise foi, literally, 'bad faith') and an "authentic" way of "being" became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant, 1943). Sartre's introduction to his philosophy is his work Existentialism Is a Humanism (L'existentialisme est un humanisme, 1946), originally presented as a lecture. Biography Early life Jean-Paul Sartre was born on 21 June 1905 in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer of the French Navy, and Anne-Marie (Schweitzer). When Sartre was two years old, his father died of an illness, which he most likely contracted in Indochina. Anne-Marie moved back to her parents' house in Meudon, where she raised Sartre with help from her father Charles Schweitzer, a teacher of German who taught Sartre mathematics and introduced him to classical literature at a very early age. When he was twelve, Sartre's mother remarried, and the family moved to La Rochelle, where he was frequently bullied, in part due to the wandering of his blind right eye (sensory exotropia).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. He attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school in Paris. He studied and earned certificates in psychology, history of philosophy, logic, general philosophy, ethics and sociology, and physics, as well as his diplôme d'études supérieures (roughly equivalent to an MA thesis) in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), an institution of higher education that was the alma mater for several prominent French thinkers and intellectuals. (His 1928 MA thesis under the title "L'Image dans la vie psychologique: rôle et nature" ["Image in Psychological Life: Role and Nature"] was supervised by Henri Delacroix.) It was at ENS that Sartre began his lifelong, sometimes fractious, friendship with Raymond Aron. Perhaps the most decisive influence on Sartre's philosophical development was his weekly attendance at Alexandre Kojève's seminars, which continued for a number of years.From his first years in the École normale, Sartre was one of its fiercest pranksters. In 1927, his antimilitarist satirical cartoon in the revue of the school, coauthored with Georges Canguilhem, particularly upset the director Gustave Lanson. In the same year, with his comrades Nizan, Larroutis, Baillou and Herland, he organized a media prank following Charles Lindbergh's successful New York City–Paris flight; Sartre & Co. called newspapers and informed them that Lindbergh was going to be awarded an honorary École degree. Many newspapers, including Le Petit Parisien, announced the event on 25 May. Thousands, including journalists and curious spectators, showed up, unaware that what they were witnessing was a stunt involving a Lindbergh look-alike. The scandal led Lanson to resign.In 1929 at the École normale, he met Simone de Beauvoir, who studied at the Sorbonne and later went on to become a noted philosopher, writer, and feminist. The two became inseparable and lifelong companions, initiating a romantic relationship, though they were not monogamous. The first time Sartre took the agrégation, he failed. He took it a second time and virtually tied for first place with Beauvoir, although Sartre was eventually awarded first place, with Beauvoir second.From 1931 until 1945, Sartre taught at various lycées of Le Havre (at the Lycée de Le Havre, the present-day Lycée François-Ier (Le Havre), 1931–1936), Laon (at the Lycée de Laon, 1936–37), and, finally, Paris (at the Lycée Pasteur, 1937–1939, and at the Lycée Condorcet, 1941–1944; see below). In 1932, Sartre read Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a book that had a remarkable influence on him.In 1933–34, he succeeded Raymond Aron at the Institut français d'Allemagne in Berlin where he studied Edmund Husserl's phenomenological philosophy. Aron had already advised him in 1930 to read Emmanuel Levinas's Théorie de l'intuition dans la phénoménologie de Husserl (The Theory of Intuition in Husserl's Phenomenology).The neo-Hegelian revival led by Alexandre Kojève and Jean Hyppolite in the 1930s inspired a whole generation of French thinkers, including Sartre, to discover Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. World War II In 1939, Sartre was drafted into the French Army, where he served as a meteorologist. He was captured by German troops in 1940 in Padoux, and he spent nine months as a prisoner of war—in Nancy and finally in Stalag XII-D, Trier, where he wrote his first theatrical piece, Barionà, fils du tonnerre, a drama concerning Christmas. It was during this period of confinement that Sartre read Martin Heidegger's Sein und Zeit, later to become a major influence on his own essay on phenomenological ontology. Because of poor health (he claimed that his poor eyesight and exotropia affected his balance), Sartre was released in April 1941. According to other sources, he escaped after a medical visit to the ophthalmologist. Given civilian status, he recovered his teaching position at Lycée Pasteur near Paris and settled at the Hotel Mistral. In October 1941, he was given a position, previously held by a Jewish teacher who had been forbidden to teach by Vichy law, at Lycée Condorcet in Paris. After coming back to Paris in May 1941, he participated in the founding of the underground group Socialisme et Liberté ("Socialism and Liberty") with other writers Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Toussaint Desanti, Dominique Desanti, Jean Kanapa, and École Normale students. In spring of 1941, Sartre suggested with "cheerful ferocity" at a meeting that the Socialisme et Liberté assassinate prominent war collaborators like Marcel Déat, but de Beauvoir noted his idea was rejected as "none of us felt qualified to make bombs or hurl grenades". The British historian Ian Ousby obse.... Discover the Jean Paul Sartre popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jean Paul Sartre books.
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Huis clos de Jean-Paul Sartre
Encyclopaedia UniversalisBienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisDeuxième pièce écrite par JeanPaul Sartre (19051980), Huis clos fut représenté pour la première fois au théâtre du V...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Annie Cohen-SolalUna lectura iluminadora e inusual de la obra de Sartre; un tributo a un referente étipo a cargo de su principal biógrafa.En 2005, y con ocasión del centenario del nacimiento de Sar...
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Star Crossed
Heather Dune Macadam & Simon WorrallFor readers of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah who are looking for an immersive true account of Nazioccupied Paris, StarCrossed is an epic story of love and resistance during WW2...
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Germinal
Roger Pearson & Émile ZolaConsidered by André Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Émile Zola's Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty of a mining community in northern F...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Joseph Castillo"Sartre: Vida y Filosofía" es una obra que sumerge a los lectores en la vida y las ideas del influyente filósofo francés JeanPaul Sartre. Desde sus primeros años hasta sus contribu...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
René Marill AlbérèsRené Marill Albérès est né en 1921, à Perpignan. Ancien élève de l’École normale supérieure, Docteur ès lettres, avec une thèse sur Giraudoux, d’abord secrétaire général de l’Insti...
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La metamorfosis
Franz KafkaEste ebook presenta "La metamorfosis", con un índice dinámico y detallado. Se trata de un relato de Franz Kafka, publicado en 1916 y que narra la historia de Gregor Samsa, ...
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Ethics 101
Brian BooneExplore the mysteries of morality and the concept of right and wrong with this accessible, engaging guide featuring basic facts along with an overview of modernday issues ranging f...
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The Criminal Child
Jean Genet, Charlotte Mandell & Jeffrey ZuckermanThe Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reformschool s...
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Karl Jaspers und Jean-Paul Sartre im Dialog
Anton Hügli & Manuela HackelSartre und Jaspers, in welcher Beziehung stehen sie zueinander, was eint sie, was trennt sie? Um Fragen wie diese geht es in diesem Band. Jaspers und SartreForscher zeigen auf, wo ...
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The Need for Roots
Simone Weil & Ros SchwartzA new translation of Simone Weil's bestknown work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could beWhat do humans require to be truly nourished? Simone...
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Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre & Richard HowardSartre's greatest novel and existentialism's key text now introduced by James Wood.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Steven Churchill & Dr. Jack ReynoldsMost readers of Sartre focus only on the works written at the peak of his influence as a public intellectual in the 1940s, notably "Being and Nothingness". "JeanPaul Sartre: Key Co...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Christine DaigleA critical figure in twentiethcentury literature and philosophy, JeanPaul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual. Chr...
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Ethics
Gordon MarinoIn Ethics: The Essential Writings, philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The phil...
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The Essential Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul SartreThe renowned French philosopher lays the foundation for an Existentialist approach to psychology and aesthetics in this pair of classic works. In The Emotions: Outline of a ...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Passerino EditoreJeanPaul Sartre è stato un filosofo, scrittore, drammaturgo e critico letterario francese, considerato uno dei più importanti rappresentanti dell'esistenzialismo, che in lui prende...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
René Marill-AlbérèsProfessor Albérès in this wellordered volume traces through successive works the elaboration of various concepts now linked to French Existentialismanguish, nausea, hypocrisy, luci...
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Brave Genius
Sean B. CarrollThe neverbeforetold account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can cat...
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Surfing with Sartre
Aaron JamesFrom the bestselling author of Assholes: A Theory, a book thatin the tradition of Shopclass as Soulcraft, Barbarian Days and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenanceuses the exper...
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Existentialism
Thomas E. WartenbergA lively introduction to this celebrated philosophical tradition.Existentialism pervades modern culture, yet if you ask most people what it means, they won’t be able to tell you. I...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Franco Fergnani“Il romanzodiario pubblicato nel 1938 è un’autentica miniera di filoni problematici, di motivi filosofici, culturali, stilistici, con un ventaglio quanto mai ricco di allusioni, am...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Christa HackeneschRowohlt EBook MonographieJeanPaul Sartre war viele Personen in einer: radikaler Kritiker der metaphysischen Tradition, engagierter Intellektueller, Schriftsteller von hohem Rang, S...
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Intellectuals
Paul Johnson"Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read." New York Times Book ReviewA fascinating portrait of the minds that ha...
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How to Be Authentic
Skye C. ClearyAn illuminating introduction to the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir and its relevance to modern lifeIn an age of selfexposure, what does it mean to be authentic?“Authenticity” has...
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
Jean-Paul Sartre & Albert CamusNOBEL PRIZE WINNER Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's bestknown play, as well as th...
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Les mots, de Jean-Paul Sartre
Édouard Morot-SirSartre solitaire du Luxembourg et écrivain janséniste ?... Il y a un jansénisme de la vocation d’écrire, et une recherche de la grâce efficace... Estce la leçon finale des «...
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A Dangerous Liaison
Carole Seymour-JonesThe renowned biographer offers a tale of intellectual and romantic rivalry in this “dazzling portrait of Sartre and De Beauvoir’s relationship” (The Guardian). JeanPaul Sart...