Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The image of the existentialist as a cafe-dwelling, chain-smoking, beret-wearing intellectual type comes largely from Sartre ...

Sartre: A Philosophical Biography. By Thomas R. Flynn. Cambridge University Press; 436 pages; $39.95 and £30. WHEN the French thinker and writer Jean-Paul Sartre died in April 1980, 50,000 people ...

Thirty-three years after his death, it is hard for American readers to appreciate the kind of authority that Jean-Paul Sartre once enjoyed in France. For three decades, starting with the end of World ...

Life, said Sartre, begins on the other side of despair. Wikicommons/public domain The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) called it "bad faith" [French, mauvaise foi], the habit people have of ...

They were an odd pair. Albert Camus was French Algerian, a pied-noir born into poverty who effortlessly charmed with his Bogart-esque features. Jean-Paul Sartre, from the upper reaches of French ...

Jean-Paul Sartre's masterpieceBeing and Nothingness(1943) made him one of the great modern philosophers of freedom. Though long and very difficult to read, his purpose was to drill down to find the ...

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 – ...