Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and critic. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1964, but refused it, saying "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution".[1] He was a Marxist and an atheist.
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Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western Philosophy |
School | Existentialism, Marxism |
Main interests | Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, Phenomenology, Ontology |
Notable ideas | "Existence precedes essence" "Bad faith" "Nothingness" |
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