Jean-Paul Sartre (Censorship (Ready Reference series))

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A leading figure in French culture after World War II, Sartre exerted an enormous influence on the intellectual life of his times through his development of the philosophical theory of existentialism, the study of the fundamental features of human existence. In his major work Being and Nothingness (1943), Sartre claimed that to be human was to be unconditionally free. Whatever meaning there is to be found in existence, he argued, stems from one’s own choices and actions, for which one is solely responsible, rather than from existing sources of meaning,...

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