Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines. Sartre has also been noted for his open relationship with the prominent feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre and de Beauvoir challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations of their upbringings, which they considered bourgeois, in both lifestyle and thought. The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity and an "authentic" way of being" became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work Being and Nothingness (1943). One of the first times in which Jean-Paul Sartre discussed the concept of situation was in Being and Nothingness, where he famously said that there is freedom only in a situation, and there is a situation only through freedom. There can be a free for-itself only as engaged in a resisting world. Outside of this engagement the notions of freedom, of determination, of necessity lose all meaning. He then published his series Situations, with ten volumes on Literary Critiques. This book includes essays on "The Prisoner of Venice", "The Living Gide", ":Reply to Albert Camus", "Albert Camus", "Paul Nizan", "The Paintings of Giacometti", "Nathalie Sarraute", "The Artist and His conscience", Merleau-Ponty", and "Of Rats and Men".
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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines. Sartre has also been noted for his open relationship with the prominent feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre and de Beauvoir challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations of their upbringings, which they considered bourgeois, in both lifestyle and thought. The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity and an "authentic" way of being" became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work Being and Nothingness (1943). One of the first times in which Jean-Paul Sartre discussed the concept of situation was in Being and Nothingness, where he famously said that there is freedom only in a situation, and there is a situation only through freedom. There can be a free for-itself only as engaged in a resisting world. Outside of this engagement the notions of freedom, of determination, of necessity lose all meaning. He then published his series Situations, with ten volumes on Literary Critiques. This book includes essays on "The Prisoner of Venice", "The Living Gide", ":Reply to Albert Camus", "Albert Camus", "Paul Nizan", "The Paintings of Giacometti", "Nathalie Sarraute", "The Artist and His conscience", Merleau-Ponty", and "Of Rats and Men".
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