Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, and political activist who became the most prominent intellectual figure of the twentieth century. Born in Paris, he studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure, taught philosophy at various lycees, and was a prisoner of war during World War II. His philosophical masterwork, Being and Nothingness, established existentialism as the dominant intellectual movement of the postwar era. This author hub collects 2 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Nausea.