#93 Overall Influence

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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Notable Works

What contributions to academia has this person made?

Nausea
Situations II
Anti-Semite and Jew
The Reprieve
Situations
The Transcendence of the Ego
What Is Literature?
Situations VIII
The Imaginary
Situations VI
The Age of Reason
Situations IX
The Words
Situations X
Ouragan sur le sucre
The Chips Are Down
Saint Genet
Situations I
L'Imagination
Situations V
Situations IV
Being and Nothingness
Search for a Method
Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions
Kean
The Devil and the Good Lord
Existentialism and Humanism
The Childhood of a Leader
Situations III
L'Engrenage
Troubled Sleep
Colonialism and Neocolonialism
Baudelaire
El muro (novela corta)
Cahiers pour une morale
Écrits de jeunesse
Situations VII
Nekrassov
Critique of Dialectical Reason

Influence Rankings by Discipline

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#17 World Rank

Philosophy

#89 World Rank

Literature

#97 World Rank

Sociology

#588 World Rank

Earth Sciences