Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80) is the philosopher whose work – certainly in the English-speaking world – came largely to define the existentialist movement in the 20th century. The image of the ...
Life, said Sartre, begins on the other side of despair. Source: Wikicommons/public domain The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) called it "bad faith" [French, mauvaise foi], the habit people ...
Jean-Paul Sartre, edited by Ronald Aronson and Adrian Van Den Hoven. New York Review Books, $22.95 (576p) ISBN 978-1-59017-493-7 Nothing disproves the ill-informed criticisms that philosophy is an ...
Nearly forty years after his death in 1980, the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre is best remembered as the father of existentialism. We are most familiar with him as the theorist of freedom, ...
Radiating contempt for its bourgeois liberal conformity, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) looms in the corner of this project like a genius with the evil eye. In my view, Sartre is a devil’s advocate to ...