Sartre, Jean-Paul
SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL (1905–1980), French philosopher and man of letters, is generally regarded as the chief exponent of the atheistic branch of existentialism. Soon after World W...
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Sartre, Jean-Paul(1905–1980)
Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist philosopher and author, was born in Paris where he attended prestigious lycées and then the École Normale Sup&...
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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 wa...
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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 w...
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The name Jean-Paul Sartre is recognized by millions around the world. By the time of his death in 1980 he was a public figure throughout Europe and something of a French and even worldwide intellectua...
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More than any other cultural figure of his generation, Jean-Paul Sartre set the tone of intellectual, philosophical, and literary activity both within postwar France and throughout Europe and the Unit...
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In the following essay about Sartre's short story "Intimacy, " Morris examines the character Lulu, noting that in "Existentialist terms, Lulu refuses her choice; she remain...
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In the following essay, Smith discusses the relationships between the main characters in Sarte's "The Making of a Leader, " concluding that the story serves as propaganda against ...
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In the essay below, Simon compares Sartre's "The Room " with Frantz von Gerlach's Les Séquestrés d'Altona, both of which feature protagonists who seque...
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In the following essay, Greenlee studies Eve's perceptions of herself in relation to, and subsequent alienation from, her parents and her husband.
Composed when Sartre was elaborating his theor...
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In the following essay, Harvey examines Sartre's use of obscenity in "The Making of a Leader, "focusing on how it serves to develop character and plot.
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Critical Essay by Catharine Savage Brosman
Although a number of scholars have noted the presence in Jean-Paul Sartre's fiction of images of insects and crabs, the role of numerous other animal ...
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Critical Essay by Laurence Gill Lyon
Both Malte Laurids Brigge and Antoine Roquentin are young writers living with dubious purpose in the shabby, if not squalid milieu of a large French city. Alienate...
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Critical Essay by Alfred Schwarz
Neither for Sartre nor Camus is unbelief the cause of despair …; it is rather the starting point toward the only meaningful response to the wretched condition o...
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Critical Essay by Hugh J. Silverman
Jean-Paul Sartre continues to add to the file which he opened with the 1964 publication of his autobiography, The Words. At the time, those who expected that the ph...
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Critical Essay by FranÇois Sauzey
Born in this century of "specialized knowledge," when the human sciences have divided themselves into ever smaller sub-disciplines, Sartre'...
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Critical Essay by Jacques HardrÉ
Sartre's critical method is to begin with a search for the original choice made by the author when confronted with his own situation. To clarify this sta...
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Critical Essay by Roger Laufer
Jean-Paul Sartre's interest in literary criticism is indirect: his concern is chiefly to understand the condition of the writer, the particular way in which he re...
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Critical Essay by Maurice Natanson
Sartre, in the tradition of phenomenology, distinguishes three related but quite different structures [of existential literature]: memory, anticipation, and imaginat...
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Critical Essay by Jonas A. Barish
Saint Genet is Sartre's account of the roles enacted, the metamorphoses undergone, by Genet himself. It is easier to indicate Sartre's aims in this huge...
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Critical Essay by Benjamin Suhl
A philosopher described Sartre's philosophy as one "rooted in experience and directed towards the analysis of experience," of experiences which are...
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Critical Essay by Robert W. Artinian
For some time now French critics have been talking about a "crisis" in their literature. "Crisis" is a violent word, and there has poss...
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Critical Essay by Fredric Jameson
Sartre's originality, among contemporary critics of style, lies in his treatment of literary style as an objective rather than a subjective phenomenon. As agai...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Halpern
Throughout the essays of Situations 1 one finds a recurrent preoccupation with the problems of language and silence, with the artist's perception of the insuffi...
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Sartre: authentic existence in contrast to living in bad faith
Jean Paul Sartre's philosophy is one of the most popular systems of thought in the school called existentialism. Sartre valued human fr...
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Sartre, Jean-Paul
Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905–1980)
Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
