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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and was a proponent of Libertarian Marxism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution".
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Born 21 June 1905 · Died 15 April 1980 · Q9364
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goodnewsnetwork.org: “What matters is not what is done to us, but what we do with what has been done to us.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
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El Comercio Perú: Cita del día, Jean Paul Sartre, filósofo: “La vida no es nada hasta que se vive, pero está en tus manos darle sentido”
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Indiatimes: Quote of the day by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre: “Three o'clock is always too late or too early for...”
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Mint: Quote of the day by Jean-Paul Sartre on existentialist philosophy: 'We are our choices'
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Mint: Jean-Paul Sartre was a prominent French philosopher and novelist, known for his influential ideas on existentialism and war.
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BroadwayWorld: Jean-Paul Sartre
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The New Yorker: Jean-Paul Sartre: the Novelist and the Existentialist
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Psychology Today: Jean-Paul Sartre's Bad Faith: The Danger of Denying Freedom
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Yahoo: Jean-Paul Sartre, defining existentialism and nothingness
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“s contention that if there is no God, everything is permitted. Katharena Eiermann in”
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Sartre himself or someone close to him got in touch with the Swedish Academy in 1975 with a request for the prize money, but was refused
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French author Bianca Lamblin (originally Bianca Bienenfeld) wrote in her book Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée (Memoirs of a deranged young girl, published in English under the title A Disgraceful Affair) of her sexua
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“Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes,”
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Died 1980-04-15.
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“L’Existentialisme est un humanisme. (fr.)”
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“If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.”
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Career landmark: funeral.
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“Byt dla siebie (…) jest tym, czym nie jest, nie będąc tym, czym jest.”
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“Je voulais être un grand écrivain et je l’ai été. Je voulais connaître la gloire et je l’ai connue. Et puis je voulais aussi autre chose, et je ne savais pas ce que c'était, et cela je ne l’ai pas eu. (fr.)”
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“Istotną i konieczną cechą wolności jest to, iż jest usytuowana.”
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“Faszyzmu nie wyróżnia liczba jego ofiar, lecz sposób ich zabijania.”
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“Absurdem jest, żeśmy się urodzili, i absurdem, że umrzemy.”
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“Człowiek skazany jest na to, by być wolnym. Skazany, nie stworzył bowiem samego siebie, a mimo wszystko jest wolny. Kiedy już raz rzucony zostanie w świat, jest odpowiedzialny za wszystko, co robi.”
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“L’existence précède l’essence. (fr.)”
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“You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.”
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“L’homme est condamné à être libre. (fr.)”
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Explained, "when Israel declared war on the Arab countries [during the Six-Day War], there was a great pro-Zionist movement in favor of Israel among western (French) intellectuals
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Sartre and his partner Simone de Beauvoir signed petitions calling for reforms to the age of consent laws in France, including the decriminalization of consensual sexual relations between adults and minors
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When asked how he would like to be remembered, Sartre replied:
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Sartre visited Red Army Faction member Andreas Baader in Stammheim Prison and criticized the harsh conditions of imprisonment
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Argued that "revolutionary authority always needs to get rid of some people that threaten it, and their death is the only way"
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Promoting its newspaper La Cause du peuple and selling it on the street became a badge of honor for Sartre
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Sartre, along with 15 other prominent French writers, including Louis Aragon and Michel Butor, signed the letter of protest against the expulsion of "the writer most representative of the great Russian tradition, Aleksan
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“the masses were not ready to receive the truth”
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1964).
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Sartre renounced literature in a witty and sardonic account of the first ten years of his life, Les Mots (The Words)
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Sartre attacked Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" which condemned the Stalinist repressions and purges
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Classified Sartre as a "useful idiot" due to his uncritical position
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(a second volume appearing posthumously)
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“This is the contradiction of racism, colonialism, and all forms of tyranny: in order to treat a man like a dog, one must first recognize him as a man.”
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That each French person was responsible for the collective crimes during the Algerian War of Independence
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“Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”
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And 1958 to Poland under Gomułka, praising him for his reforms
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Just after Stalin's death, Sartre visited the Soviet Union, which he stated he found a "complete freedom of criticism" while condemning the United States for sinking into "prefascism"
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Camus published The Rebel in which he expressed his strong disdain for communism, political violence, and authoritarianism
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Awarded Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century for Nausea (1950).
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“I have no doubt that the South Korean feudalists and the American imperialists have promoted this war. But I do not doubt either that it was begun by the North Koreans”
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For the introduction of Léopold Sédar Senghor's Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache (Anthology of New Negro and Malagasy Poetry), he wrote "Black Orpheus" (re-published in Situations III), a critique of co
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Helped found the short-lived left-wing party known as the Rassemblement démocratique révolutionnaire (RDR); the party disbanded a year later
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The Catholic Church placed Sartre's œuvre on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (List of Prohibited Books)
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Sartre published several articles concerning the condition of African Americans in the United States—specifically the racism and discrimination against them in the country—in his second Situations collection
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Published Anti-Semite and Jew, after having published the first part of the essay, "Portrait de l'antisémite", the year before in Les Temps modernes, No
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Sartre accepted an assignment by Camus's newspaper Combat to travel to America to write a series of articles
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After the war ended, Sartre moved to an apartment on the rue Bonaparte, where he was to produce most of his subsequent work and where he lived until 1962
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After the group disbanded, Sartre joined a writers' Resistance group, in which he remained an active participant until the end of the war
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Formed the "Socialisme et Liberté" resistance group
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Awarded Eugène Dabit populist novel award (1940).
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In Padoux, and he spent nine months as a prisoner of war—in Nancy and finally in Stalag XII-D, Trier, where he wrote his first theatrical piece, Bariona, ou le fils du tonnerre, a drama concerning Christmas
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Had become accepted, as people were numbed into accepting what Sartre called "a pale, dull green, unobtrusive strain, which the eye almost expected to find among the dark clothes of the civilians"
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Sartre published an article on Husserl's intentionality in André Gide's literary magazine La Nouvelle Revue française, which served as a manifesto for his "revolutionary" project of fusing philosophy and literature, and
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Sartre was drafted into the French Army, where he served as a meteorologist
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Sartre read Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a book that had a remarkable influence on him
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When a remark on the topic by Raymond Aron, fresh from Berlin, overwhelmed Sartre during a discussion with him at the Bec de Gaz cafe in Montparnasse
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To read Emmanuel Levinas's Théorie de l'intuition dans la phénoménologie de Husserl (The Theory of Intuition in Husserl's Phenomenology)
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At the École normale, he met Simone de Beauvoir, who studied at the Sorbonne and later went on to become a noted philosopher, writer, and feminist
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His antimilitarist satirical cartoon in the revue of the school, which he co-wrote with Georges Canguilhem, particularly upset the director Gustave Lanson
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Born 1905-06-21.
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“s attitude to the Soviet Union: As we were neither members of the [Communist] party nor its avowed sympathizers, it was not our duty to write about Soviet labor camps; we were free to remain aloof from the quarrel over the nature of this system, provided that no events of sociological significance had occurred. Sartre held that the Soviet Union was a”
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Awarded Toynbee Prize.
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Studied at Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
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Studied at Lycée Henri-IV.
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Studied at University of Paris.
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Studied at Cours Hattemer.
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Studied at École Normale Supérieure.
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