Jean Paul Sartre Existentialism 1905 1980
Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris. ... His father was a naval officer who died when Jean-Paul was young. ... Sartre lived after his fathers early death with his grandfather, Charles Schweitzer and his mother in Paris. ... Sartre attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. ... During WW II Sartre was drafted in 1939, imprisoned a year later in Germany, but in 1941 he was released or escaped it is not known. ... Sartre was never a member of Communist party, although he tried to reconcile existentialism and Marxism and collaborated with the French Communist Party as the only hope of bettering the lot of the working classes. Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964, but he declined the award in protest of the values of bourgeois society. However, when Albert Camus with whom Sartre was closely linked in the 1940, openly criticized Stalinism, Sartre hesitated at that time about such acts. ... Sartre’s early association with Heidegger and Hussrl proved to be the most seminal of his career. Husserl’s focus on pheonomenology (Belief that the immediate objects of sensation provide no evidence for the existance of anything beyond itself) forced the clarification by Sartre. While Sartre agrees in escape from Cartesian/Kantian theory of existance, he elaborates on Husserl’s theorem to refute the simple reduction of the finite to ‘universals’.