Sartre
Declined Nobel Prize
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) was a French philosopher, novelist, and playwright, the leading figure of existentialism.
His work centers on radical human freedom and the anxiety it produces: we are "condemned to be free," responsible for our choices without excuses.
Very Sartrean or Sartre-like describes bleakly philosophical views about meaninglessness or bad faith.
His refusal of the Nobel Prize in 1964 became part of his legend.
Philosophy stressing self-created meaning
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
- beingExisting as something
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
freedom · authenticity · bad faith · absurdity · anguish · transcendence · ontology · Heidegger
French feminist philosopher
- CamusFrench absurdist author-philosopher
- Merleau-PontyPhenomenologist of embodiment
- rivalryOngoing contest between opponents
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
Flaubert · influence · mentorship · philosophical dialogue · Aron
French feminist philosopher
- ParisFrance's chief city
- glassesCorrective eyewear or tumblers
- pipeHollow conveyance channel
- Left BankParis's intellectual quarter
amphetamines · blindness · polyamory · chain-smoking · twentieth century · French · 1905 · 1980
Direct effort for reform
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- anti-colonialismOpposition to foreign domination
- AlgeriaMaghreb nation, largest African
- VietnamSoutheast Asian coastal nation
Maoism · revolution · commitment · protest · solidarity · praxis · liberation · oppression
Upright structural boundary
- autobiographySelf-penned life narrative
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
- chestnut treeDeciduous nut-bearing hardwood
- OrestesMatricidal prince of myth
existentialism
Philosophy stressing self-created meaning
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
- beingExisting as something
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
consciousness · freedom · authenticity · bad faith · absurdity · anguish · transcendence · ontology · Heidegger · Merleau-Ponty
Beauvoir
French feminist philosopher
- CamusFrench absurdist author-philosopher
- Merleau-PontyPhenomenologist of embodiment
- rivalryOngoing contest between opponents
Flaubert · estrangement · influence · mentorship · philosophical dialogue · Aron
Beauvoir
French feminist philosopher
Left Bank · amphetamines · blindness · polyamory · chain-smoking · twentieth century · French · 1905 · 1980
activism
Direct effort for reform
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- anti-colonialismOpposition to foreign domination
- AlgeriaMaghreb nation, largest African
Vietnam · Maoism · revolution · commitment · protest · solidarity · praxis · liberation · oppression · bourgeoisie
The Wall
Upright structural boundary
- autobiographySelf-penned life narrative
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
- chestnut treeDeciduous nut-bearing hardwood
- ExistentialistsCamus, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir
- French ExistentialistsSimone de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
- French Culturebaguette, baguettes, beret, berets, brie
SartreThomas Aquinas
Scholastic philosopher-theologian
Plato · essentialists · Aristotle · Leibniz · C.S. Lewis
SartreMarcel Proust
Gustave Flaubert · Vladimir Nabokov · Oscar Wilde · aesthetes · formalists
- Jean-Paul Sartre"Nausea" penned him