Jean Paul Sartre, 1905-1980. Sartre was a French writer, philosopher and life long companion to Simone de Beauvoir (Ambassadress of Existentialism). A leading existentialist, Sartre wrote literary works, such as the autobiographical novel Nausea and the play No Exit, and philosophical volumes that include Being and Nothingness. Sartre declined the 1964 Nobel Prize for literature. Jean Paul Sartre is a major player in the Realm of Existentialism.
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existentialism and Jean Paul Sartredied April 15, 1980, Paris, France
I am responsible for everything . . . except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world . . . in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant. --Jean Paul Sartre |
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To Existentialism Jean Paul Sartre has contributed a classically brilliant French mind. If he is not the leader that Americans first took him to be, he is certainly one of the leaders. And his forthrightness, his skill as a writer, his acuity and originality, have won him a wider audience than any philosopher, probably, has ever enjoyed in his own lifetime. Sartre has brought to his work a characteristically French mentality, viz., attuned less to metaphysical than to psychological modes of reasoning. Paradoxically---for Descartes was a leader of Renaissance rationalism---Sartre is an Existentialist who operates in the Cartesian tradition; at the beginning of any investigation he poses the cogito, the self-that-is.
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