Jean-Paul Sartre

Tags: Philosopher.

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (/ˈsɑrtrə/; French: [saʁtʁ]; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher playwright novelist screenwriter political activist biographer and literary critic.

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birth date

1905-06-21

birth place

Paris

death date

1980-04-15

death place

Paris

era

20th-century philosophy

influenced

Albert Camus, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, R. D. Laing, Raymond Aron, Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir, Alain Badiou, Frantz Fanon, Che Guevara

influenced by

Albert Camus, Edmund Husserl, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gustave Flaubert, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Søren Kierkegaard, Sigmund Freud, Raymond Aron, Alexandre Kojève, Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Paul Nizan

LCCN Id

n/79/106134

main interest

Consciousness, Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Ontology, Political philosophy, Self-consciousness, Literature

notableIdea

Nothing, Being and Nothingness, Situation (Sartre), Bad faith (existentialism), Existence precedes essence

philosophicalSchool

Anarchism, Existentialism, Continental philosophy, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology (philosophy), Marxism

region

Western philosophy

SELIBR Id

208769