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Jean-Paul Sartre


Born
in Paris, France
June 21, 1905

Died
April 15, 1980

Genre
Philosophy, Literature & Fiction, Politics

Influences
Georg Hegel, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Edmund Husserl, ...more


Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy.

He declined the award of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age."

In the years around the time of his death, however, existentialism declined in French philosophy and was overtaken by structuralism, represented by Levi-Strauss and, one of Sartre's detractors, Michel Foucault. ...more

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“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
tags: loneliness, solitude
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“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
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“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
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March 2023 New School Poll

 
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