Jean-Paul Sartre

Existentialism's public face: the philosopher of freedom who also wrote its plays and novels.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1905 – 1980

language

French

region

Paris

notable works

Being and Nothingness, Nausea, No Exit, The Words

Core Principles & Analysis

• He declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, the only voluntary refusal.
• Nausea (1938) preceded the philosophy of Being and Nothingness (1943).
• With Beauvoir he edited Les Temps modernes from 1945.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Jean-Paul Sartre