Sartre, Jean-Paul
Sartre, Jean-Paul ( 1905 – 80 ),French philosopher, novelist, playwright, literary critic, and political activist. He was the principal exponent of existentialism in France, and exercised a considerable influence on French intellectual life in the decades following the Second World War. He was educated at the École Normale Supérieure, where he studied philosophy and psychology, and subsequently spent a period studying phenomenology at the French Institute in Berlin. He held various teaching posts in France until the outbreak of war. Mobilized in 1939 , taken prisoner in 1940 , he was released the following year and played a part in the resistance movement. After the war he devoted himself exclusively to writing and, with varying degrees of intensity, to the pursuit of socialist political objectives. Through the great range of his creative and critical energies, his personal involvement in many of the important issues of...
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