Sartre
OriginFrance
Era1905
SchoolExistentialism
About Sartre
Existence precedes essence: we are born first, then we define ourselves. Turned down the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964. His relationship with Simone de Beauvoir was famously open. Being and Nothingness is the foundational text of existentialism. Was a lifelong Marxist despite never joining the Communist Party.
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