Jean-Paul Sartres enduring quote reframes identity as an unfinished journey rather than a completed record. This article ...
In this impenetrable rhapsody to the apotheosis of French intellectualism, Sartre emerges as a force of nature: a novelist comparable to Faulkner and Joyce; a thinker whose existentialism rivaled ...
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Stereotyping Jewish women is dangerously common. By Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Rachel Schreiber Vladimir Nabokov wondered in 1949 whether the French existentialist’s novel was even worth translating ...
The image of the existentialist as a cafe-dwelling, chain-smoking, beret-wearing intellectual type comes largely from Sartre (Getty) Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80) is the philosopher whose work – ...
Want to know why 50,000 people showed up to pay their respects at the funeral of Jean-Paul Sartre? Three new books may provide the answer. By Ray Monk On YouTube there is a three-minute clip of the ...
Existence precedes essence, as our friend Jean-Paul Sartre used to say. That idea comes from a long history of very theoretical philosophical thought. But in real life, it's the idea that there is no ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. SHE was the high priestess of 20th century French thought, the mother of modern feminism and a champion of sexual freedom who shocked ...