Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic
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Why is this person notable and influential?Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines.
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Study Guide: The Major Works of Jean-Paul Sartre
As a French philosopher and writer of the twentieth-century, Sartre was a foremost supporter of Marxism, sociology, and critical theory. Moreover, Sartre was a central figure in the philosophy of existentialism. Titles in this study guide include The Flies, No Exit, Dirty Hands, The Roads to Freedom, Being and Nothingness, The Wall, Nausea, The Childhood Of A Leader, and Existentialism.
Notable Works
What contributions to academia has this person made?- Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions
- Situations VI
- The Words
- Anti-Semite and Jew
- The Devil and the Good Lord
- Écrits de jeunesse
- El muro (novela corta)
- Baudelaire
- L'Imagination
- Situations III
- Situations VII
- Nekrassov
- The Chips Are Down
- Situations X
- L'Engrenage
- Troubled Sleep
- Situations IV
- Search for a Method
- Situations V
- What Is Literature?
- Situations II
- Kean
- The Age of Reason
- Colonialism and Neocolonialism
- Situations I
- The Transcendence of the Ego
- The Imaginary
- Situations IX
- Ouragan sur le sucre
- Situations VIII
- Saint Genet
- Existentialism and Humanism
- Critique of Dialectical Reason
- The Reprieve
- Situations
- Cahiers pour une morale
- The Childhood of a Leader
- Nausea
- Being and Nothingness