Jean-Paul Sartre was born in 1905, on June 21 in Paris.His father was a naval officer who died when he was only one year.Brought up by his mother and grandparents.Sartre was a writer, philosopher, playwright, and essayist.In 1929 he graduated from high school and the next ten years devoted himself to traveling, teaching philosophy in French high schools.
His work and achievements
His first novel, titled "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre published in 1938.Then, his book "The Wall" with a short story.During the Second World War, the writer was an active participant in hostilities.Almost a year he spent in a POW camp.Then he became a member of the resistance.Being in the occupation, in 1943, he wrote his most famous work "Being and Nothingness".It was very popular of his plays "behind locked doors" and "Fly."
Jean-Paul Sartre, because of its extraordinary mind became the leader of the existentialist movement and was one of the most talked about and celebrated writers in postwar France.He was one of the founders of the magazine "New Times".In the 50s, Sartre began to cooperate with the Communist Party of France.And in the '70s he took over as editor of the banned newspaper at the time, and took an active part in the demonstrations.
Among recent works can be identified "Aloof Altona", "Critique of Dialectical Reason," "Word," "Trojan Women", "The Ghost of Stalin," "The family has its black sheep."For his works, Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964.However, the writer of her refused.
philosophy
At the beginning of his philosophical way Jean-Paul Sartre rejects the idealism and materialism.He takes them for varieties redutsionizma that brings personality to any solid combinations.According to the philosopher, in this case, it lost the autonomy of man, his freedom, lost the meaning of his existence.Sartre despised fashionable in the 20s, psychoanalysis, including its limitation of human freedom.Their views and understanding of freedom he describes in "Saint Genet."
Freedom, according to Sartre, is a central concept in philosophy.It appears as something absolute, forever given to man.This term includes, above all, freedom of choice that a person no one can take.Most full this position is described in the book "Jean-Paul Sartre.Existentialism - a humanism. "
meaning around the world gives the existing human activities.Each piece is a proof of the individual human values.Giving it a particular meaning, man forms himself as an individual.
universal acceptance
Jean-Paul Sartre died in 1980.Official funeral did not take place, as the writer requested before his death.The famous writer, the leading philosopher of his time, an active public figure most in the people appreciate honesty.And I wanted her to feel, even after death.The funeral procession slowly moved to Paris, all the beloved and dear to Sartre places.During this time the procession joined by about 50 thousand people.It eloquently speaks of public recognition and love.
