Jean-Paul Sartre

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atheist essayist existentialist philosopher human literary critic novelist philosopher playwright political activist screenwriter

Jean-Paul Sartre was a 20th-century French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, and political activist known for works such as "Being and Nothingness" and "No Exit."

Aliases (2)

Jean‑Paul Sartre ×1
Sartre ×1

Statements (78)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	atheist → essayist → existentialist philosopher → human → literary critic → novelist → philosopher → playwright → political activist → screenwriter →
awardReceived	1964 Nobel Prize in Literature → Nobel Prize in Literature →
birthDate	1905-06-21 →
burialPlace	Montparnasse Cemetery →
causeOfDeath	lung edema →
closeFriend	Simone de Beauvoir →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
deathDate	1980-04-15 →
educatedAt	University of Paris NERFINISHED → École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED →
employer	Lycée Condorcet → Lycée Pasteur → Lycée du Havre → École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED →
ethnicGroup	French →
familyName	Sartre →
fieldOfWork	literature → philosophy → political theory →
founded	Les Temps modernes →
genre	autobiography → drama → essay → philosophical fiction →
givenName	Jean-Paul →
influenced	Albert Camus → Frantz Fanon → Jean Genet → Maurice Merleau-Ponty → Simone de Beauvoir →
influencedBy	Edmund Husserl → Friedrich Nietzsche → G. W. F. Hegel → Karl Marx → Martin Heidegger →
languageSpoken	French →
movement	Marxism → existentialism → phenomenology →
name	Jean-Paul Sartre →
nativeLanguage	French →
notableEvent	refusal of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature →
notableWork	Being and Nothingness → Critique of Dialectical Reason → Dirty Hands → Nausea → No Exit → The Flies → The Respectful Prostitute → The Roads to Freedom → The Words →
opposedTo	Algerian War → French colonialism → Vietnam War →
partner	Simone de Beauvoir →
philosophicalIdea	bad faith → existence precedes essence → nothingness as a structure of consciousness → radical freedom →
placeOfBirth	France → Paris →
placeOfDeath	France → Paris →
politicalAlignment	Marxist → far-left →
positionHeld	editor of Les Temps modernes →
religion	atheism →
sexOrGender	male →

Referenced by (30)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Albert Camus → Alexandre Kojève → Beyond Good and Evil → Fear and Trembling → Franz Kafka → Friedrich Nietzsche → Fyodor Dostoevsky → G. W. F. Hegel → Henri Bergson → Martin Heidegger → Maurice Merleau-Ponty → Phenomenology of Mind → Phenomenology of Spirit → Søren Kierkegaard → Victor Hugo → master–slave dialectic →	influenced
Les Deux Magots → Maurice Merleau-Ponty → Western Marxism →	associatedWith
Kenzaburō Ōe → existential psychotherapy →	influencedBy
Brasserie Lipp → Café de Flore ("Jean‑Paul Sartre") →	notablePatron
Montparnasse Cemetery →	burialPlaceOf
Jean-Paul Sartre ("Sartre") →	familyName
Lycée Louis-le-Grand →	hasAlumnus
Western philosophy →	hasKeyFigure
Lycée Henri-IV →	hasNotableAlumni
Cimetière de Levallois-Perret →	hasNotableBurial
Jean-Paul Sartre →	name