Jean paul sartre biography no exit cafe
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No Exit
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 1944
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Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit is considered by many to be the author’s best play and most accessible dramatization of his philosophy of existentialism. Sartre wrote the original draft in two weeks at the Cafe Flore in Paris. Titled Huis clos in the original French, it was first produced in Paris’s Vieux-Colombier Theater. At the time, during World War II, this part of France was occupied by Nazi Germany. Sartre deliberately wrote No Exit as a one-act play so that theater-goers would not be kept past the German-imposed curfew. Many forms of entertainment, including plays, had to be approved by German censors. During rehearsals, clearance to perform the play was given and taken away several times. Despite such setbacks, No Exit opened in the spring of 1944, and it was an immediate success. The original production p
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (1905 - 1980) was a French philosopher, writer and political activist, and one of the central figures in 20th Century French philosophy.
He is best known as the main figurehead of the Existentialism movement. Along with his French contemporaries Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) and Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986), he helped popularize the movement through his novels and plays as well as through his more academic works. As a young man, he also made significant contributions to Phenomenology.
He was a confirmed Atheist and a committed Communist and Marxist, and took a prominent role in many leftist political causes throughout his adult life.
Sartre was born in Paris, France on 21 June 1905. His father was Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer of the French Navy, who died of a fever when Sartre was only 15 months old; his mother was Anne-Marie Schweitzer, of Alsatian origin and cousin to the German
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Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
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| Born | Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (1905-06-21)21 June 1905 Paris, France |
| Died | 15 April 1980(1980-04-15) (aged 74) Paris, France |
| Education | École normale supérieure (BA, MA) |
| Partner | Simone dem Beauvoir (1929–1980) |
| Awards | Nobel Prize for Literature (1964, declined) |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, existential phenomenology,[1]hermeneutics,[1]Western Marxism, anarchism, anarcho-pacifism[2] |
Main interests | Metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, consciousness, self-consciousness, literature, political philosophy, ontology |
Notable ideas | Bad faith, "existence precedes essence", nothingness, "Hell fryst vatten other people", situation, transcendence of the ego
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