Jean-Paul Sartre

French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)

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Jean-Paul Sartre was a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, and biographer associated with existentialism, atheism, and phenomenology. Born Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre in Paris in 1905, he was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and University of Paris. He participated in World War II and the Algerian War. His notable works include No exit (Huis clos), The Flies (Les Mouches), and What Is Literature?

Sartre received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century, and was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was influenced by Martin Heidegger, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Emmanuel Levinas, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. He was unmarried partners with Simone de Beauvoir, Wanda Kosakiewicz, and Olga Kosakiewicz.

He died of edema due to natural causes in the 14th arrondissement of Paris in 1980. He is buried in Montparnasse Cemetery. Sartre suffered from blindness and had one eye. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 21 June 1905
Died: 15 April 1980
Works: 1172

Top works

No exit (Huis clos) & The Flies (Les Mouches)
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LA RESPONSABILIDAD DEL ESCRITOR
Sartre
What Is Literature?

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Film & TV

Paris, France

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known for

The Padilla Affair — Self (archive footage)2023
Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova — Self2022
At War for Algeria — Self - Philosopher (archive footage)2022
The Century of Icons — Self (archive footage)2022
Mario y los perros — Self - Writer (archivo footage)2019
The Lévi-Strauss Century — Self (archive footage)2016
Hôtel La Louisiane — Self (archive footage)2015
Sartre/Camus: A Fractured Friendship — Self (archive footage)2014
The Future Is Now! — The Existentialist2011
Benny Lévy, la révolution impossible2008

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1905
Active to: 1980

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 402
Total plays: 6,075

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1964
“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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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: France
Place of birth: Paris
Place of death: 14th arrondissement of Paris
Occupation: lyricist
Educated at: University of Paris
Employer: Lycée Condorcet
Languages spoken: French
Native language: French
Religion: atheism
Field of work: ontology
Movement: continental philosophy
Conflict: World War II
Image: Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - Jean Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir welcomed by Avraham Shlonsky and Leah Goldberg (cropped).jpg
Residence: Laon
Significant event: funeral

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place of burial: Montparnasse Cemetery
Commons category: Jean-Paul Sartre
date of birth: 1905-06-21
date of death: 1980-04-15
topic's main category: Category:Jean-Paul Sartre
medical condition: one-eyed
Commons Creator page: Jean-Paul Sartre
member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
influenced by: Edmund Husserl
unmarried partner: Olga Kosakiewicz
birth name: Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
cause of death: edema
Commons gallery: Jean-Paul Sartre
manner of death: natural causes
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Literature
name in native language: Jean-Paul Sartre
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
date of burial or cremation: 1980-04-23
writing language: French
pseudonym: Jacques Guillemin
time period: contemporary philosophy
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archives at: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Encyclopedic overview

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre in Beijing, 1955

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (/ˈsɑːrtrə/, US also /sɑːrt/; French: [saʁtʁ]; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) 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 phenomenology). 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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