Jean-Paul Sartre - Wikipedia Sartre’s early academic career included teaching in several French lycées and engaging in provocative pranks and debates Sartre’s life was marked by strong political engagement During World War II, he was drafted, captured, and later released, after which he co-founded the resistance group Socialisme et Liberté
Jean-Paul Sartre | Biography, Ideas, Existentialism, Being and . . . Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist, and playwright, best known as the leading exponent of existentialism in the 20th century In 1964 he declined the Nobel Prize for Literature Learn more about Sartre’s life, works, and philosophy in this article
Jean Paul Sartre: Existentialism - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy After a brief summary of Sartre’s life, this article looks at the main themes characterizing Sartre’s early philosophical works The ontology developed in Sartre’s main existential work, Being and Nothingness, will then be analysed
Jean-Paul Sartre – Biographical - NobelPrize. org Its popularity and that of its author reached a climax in the forties, and Sartre’s theoretical writings as well as his novels and plays constitute one of the main inspirational sources of modern literature In his philosophical view atheism is taken for granted; the “loss of God” is not mourned
Jean-Paul Sartre Biography - Brandeis University Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, but he refused to accept it, claiming that a writer "should refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution " Sartre first explicated his philosophy in the novel Nausea, which critics believe to be autobiographical
Being and Nothingness - Wikipedia Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (French: L'Être et le néant : Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique), sometimes published with the subtitle A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, is a 1943 book by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre In the book, Sartre develops a philosophical account in support of his existentialism, dealing with topics such as consciousness