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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, political activist, and writer, 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 N…
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culture · French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980) · playwright · epistemologist · novelist · screenwriter · biographer · literary critic · essayist · resistance fighter · political writer · writer · also Jean-Paul Sartre, Sartre
Born 21 June 1905 · Died 15 April 1980 · Q9364
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2026· 18 entries
Clarin.com: Video Las mejores frases de Jean-Paul Sartre
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El Confidencial: Jean-Paul Sartre, filósofo y activista político: "Amar es aceptar que el otro es libre, incluso de no elegirnos"
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Clarin.com: Jean-Paul Sartre, filósofo y escritor francés, sobre el amor: "Quien quiere ser amado no desea el sometimiento del ser amado"
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OkDiario: Jean-Paul Sartre, filósofo y escritor francés, sobre el amor verdadero: «Amar es aceptar que el otro es lib...
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The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Jean-Paul Sartre: 'It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to...'
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The Economic Times: Wednesday Motivation Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre: 'Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to...' - French ph
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The Economic Times: Wednesday Motivation Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre: 'Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to...' - French philosopher’s timeless lesson on focus, effort and why action matters ...
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Yahoo: La reflexión de Jean-Paul Sartre sobre la identidad y el pasado: “Somos lo que hacemos con lo que hicieron de nosotros”
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Yahoo: Quote Of The Day By Jean-Paul Sartre: 'It's An Undertaking To Start Loving Somebody. You Have To...'
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“Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.”
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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 Existentialist
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2025· 1 entry
The New Yorker: Jean-Paul Sartre: the Novelist and the Existentialist
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2023· 1 entry
Psychology Today: Jean-Paul Sartre's Bad Faith: The Danger of Denying Freedom
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2022· 2 entries
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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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Letters: Mary Warnock and Jean-Paul Sartre
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2017· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 20 juillet 2017.”
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2016· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 20 décembre 2016.”
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2000· 1 entry
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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1993· 1 entry
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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1991· 1 entry
“Die Hölle, das sind die anderen." - Geschlossene Gesellschaft. Deutsch von Traugott König. 5. Auftritt. Rowohlt Taschenbuchverlag Hamburg 1991, S.59”
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1982· 1 entry
“Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes,”
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1980· 18 entries
Died 1980-04-15.
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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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Career landmark: funeral.
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“Byt dla siebie (…) jest tym, czym nie jest, nie będąc tym, czym jest.”
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“L’homme est condamné à être libre. (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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“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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“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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“L’Existentialisme est un humanisme. (fr.)”
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“Faszyzmu nie wyróżnia liczba jego ofiar, lecz sposób ich zabijania.”
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“Istotną i konieczną cechą wolności jest to, iż jest usytuowana.”
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“Nadzieja jest najcenniejszą towarzyszką życia.”
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“Opis: o Erneście „Che” Guevarze.”
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“L’enfer c’est les autres (fr.)”
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“Władza rewolucyjna musi się pozbyć pewnej grupy ludzi, którzy jej zagrażają, a ja nie widzę innego środka niż ich zgładzenie. Z więzienia zawsze można wyjść.”
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“Wy, Europejczycy, gardzicie Afryką i Azjąnazywacie nas, zdaje się, barbarzyńcami,ale kiedy zwabieni żądzą i chciwościąnajeżdżacie nasze kraje,wtedy bez litości łupicie, torturujecie, mordujecie.I kto wtedy jest barbarzyńcą?Kim wtedy jesteście o Grecy,tak dumni ze swojej kultury?”
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1978· 1 entry
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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1977· 1 entry
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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1975· 1 entry
When asked how he would like to be remembered, Sartre replied:
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1974· 2 entries
Sartre visited Red Army Faction member Andreas Baader in Stammheim Prison and criticized the harsh conditions of imprisonment
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“(fr. La nausée; PIW, Wrocław 1974, tłum. Jacek Trznadel)”
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1973· 1 entry
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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1970· 2 entries
“Das beste bei Freud finden Sie schon bei Plato. [...] Sie täten besser daran, Spinoza zu lesen." - Die Kindheit eines Chefs. Deutsch von Heinrich Wallfisch. In: Gesammelte Erzählungen. Rowohlt 1970. S. 240”
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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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1969· 2 entries
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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1968· 1 entry
“[Sul 1968] L'importante è che l'azione ci sia stata, quando tutti la ritenevano impensabile.”
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1965· 2 entries
“Mein Großvater [Charles Schweitzer] [...] war ein Mann des 19. Jahrhunderts, der sich, wie viele andere, Victor Hugo selbst nicht ausgeschlossen, für Victor Hugo hielt." - Die Wörter. Deutsch von Hans Mayer. Rowohlt 1965, S. 18”
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“On Alberto Giacometti's work, Situations, in Braziller (1965)”
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1964· 6 entries
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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“(Original franz.: "mon grand-père [Charles Schweitzer] [...]: c’était un homme du XIXe siècle qui se prenait, comme tant d'autres, comme Victor Hugo lui-même, pour Victor Hugo." - Le mots. Gallimard 1964, p. 15 books.google)”
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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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“Refusing the Nobel Prize, New York Times (22 October 1964)”
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1963· 1 entry
“Drei Uhr, das ist immer zu spät oder zu früh für alles, was man machen will." - Der Ekel. Deutsch von Heinrich Wallfisch. 1963 ff. rororo S. 20”
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1961· 3 entries
“("Car, en le premier temps de la révolte, il faut tuer : abattre un Européen c'est faire d'une pierre deux coups, supprimer en même temps un oppresseur et un opprimé : restent un homme mort et un homme libre" - Préface à „Les damnés de la terre“ (1961) par Frantz Fanon. classiques.uqac.ca)”
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Classified Sartre as a "useful idiot" due to his uncritical position
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“Marxism and Subjectivity", 1961 lecture published in New Left Review (July–August 2014)”
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1960· 3 entries
(a second volume appearing posthumously)
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“("A nos yeux, la Philosophie n’est pas ; sous quelque forme qu’on la considère, cette ombre de la science, cette éminence grise de l’humanité n’est qu’une abstraction hypostasiée. En fait, il y a des philosophies." - Critique de la raison dialectique (1960), p. 15 books.google)”
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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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1959· 1 entry
That each French person was responsible for the collective crimes during the Algerian War of Independence
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1958· 1 entry
“Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”
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1957· 2 entries
“Existentialism and Human Emotions (1957)”
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And 1958 to Poland under Gomułka, praising him for his reforms
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1954· 1 entry
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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1953· 1 entry
“On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg," Libération (22 June 1953)”
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1951· 2 entries
“Morgen werden die schwarzen Vögel kommen." - Die Wege der Freiheit 3: Der Pfahl im Fleische. Deutsch von Hans Georg Brenner. Rowohlt 1951, Schlußsatz. Zitiert in der Rezension der Frankfurter Hefte 1951, S. 601 books.google”
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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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1950· 2 entries
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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1949· 1 entry
“(Original franz.: "Demain viendront les oiseaux noirs." - Les chemins de la liberté, tome III: La mort dans l'âme. Gallimard 1949, p. 293 books.google)”
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1948· 4 entries
“Orphée Noir (Black Orpheus)" preface, Anthologie de la Nouvelle Poésie Nègre et Malgache (1948)”
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The Catholic Church placed Sartre's œuvre on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (List of Prohibited Books)
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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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1947· 1 entry
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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1946· 1 entry
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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1945· 3 entries
“L'âge de raison (The Age of Reason) (1945)”
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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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Sartre accepted an assignment by Camus's newspaper Combat to travel to America to write a series of articles
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1944· 1 entry
“("En un mot, l'homme doit se créer sa propre essence; c'est en se jetant dans le monde, en y souffrant, en y luttant qu'il se définit peu à peu; et la définition demeure toujours ouverte; on ne peut point dire ce qu'est cet homme avant sa mort, ni l'humanité avant qu'elle ait disparu" - A propos de l'existentialisme - Mise au point. Action, no. 17, 29 décembre 1944.)”
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1943· 1 entry
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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1941· 1 entry
Formed the "Socialisme et Liberté" resistance group
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1940· 3 entries
Awarded Eugène Dabit populist novel award (1940).
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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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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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1939· 3 entries
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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“(Original franz.: "Ce qu'il y a de meilleur chez Freud, vous le trouvez déjà chez Platon. [...] Vous feriez mieux de lire Spinoza." - L'enfance d'un chef, in: Le Mur (1939). Gallimard 1980, p. 203-4 books.google)”
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1938· 1 entry
“("Trois heures, c'est toujours trop tard ou trop tôt pour tout ce qu'on veut faire." - La nausée (1938))”
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1936· 1 entry
“L'imagination (Imagination: A Psychological Critique) (1936)”
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1932· 2 entries
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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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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1930· 1 entry
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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1929· 1 entry
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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1927· 1 entry
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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1905· 2 entries
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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