Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre in March 1967
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a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, as well as a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism
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Born
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre 21 June 1905 Paris, France
Died
15 April 1980 (aged 74) Paris, France
adultbasic
France
Education
École Normale Supérieure, University of Paris ( B.A. ; M.A., 1928)
era
1800+
Era
20th-century philosophy
Main interests
Metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, consciousness, self-consciousness, literature, political philosophy, ontology
Notable ideas
Bad faith, " existence precedes essence ", nothingness, "Hell is other people", situation, transcendence of the ego ("every positional consciousness of an object is a non-positional consciousness of itself"),
Partner(s)
Simone de Beauvoir (1929–1980; his death)
Region
Western philosophy
School
Continental philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, existential phenomenology, hermeneutics, Western Marxism, anarchism (late)