| • Science | • People | • Locations | • Timeline |
Sartre was born in Paris to parents Jean-Baptiste Sartre, a naval officer, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer, cousin of Albert Schweitzer. He was 15 months old when his father died of a fever and Anne-Marie raised him with help of her father, Charles Schweitzer, who taught Sartre mathematics and introduced him to classical literature at an early age.
As a teenager in the 1920s, Sartre became attracted to philosophy upon reading Henri Bergson's Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness. He studied in Paris at the elite École Normale Supérieure where, in 1929Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 See also 1929 in aviation 1929 in film 1929 in literature 1929 in mu, he met fellow student Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir ( January 9, 1908 April 14, 1986) was a French author, philosopher, and feminist. Born Simone Lucie-Ernestine-Marie-Bertrand de Beauvoir on January 9, 1908 in Paris, France, she eventually studied at the elite Ecole Normale Superieure w. The two became inseparable and lifelong companions, though far from monogamousIn monogamy a person has only one spouse at a time (as opposed to polygamy). The practice of restricting sexual contact to a single partner (married or not) for a limited period of time, then ending that relationship before beginning another (though in pr. Together they challenged the assumptions and expectations of their bourgeois upbringings. The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity (bad faith/mauvaise foi) and an "authentic" state of "being" became the dominant theme of Sartre's work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work L'Etre et le Néant ( Being and NothingnessBeing and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology ( 1943) is a philosophical treatise by Jean-Paul Sartre that is regarded as the beginning of existentialism. The original title, in French, was L'Etre et le Neant''. In 1952, after joining the ph) ( 1944Events World War II January January 4 The Battle of Monte Cassino begins. January 5 Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munck January 17 British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River. January 20 The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin;).
Possibly the best introduction of Sartre's philosophy can be found in his work Existentialism and HumanismExistentialism and Humanism L'existentialisme est un humanisme is a 1946 philosophical work by Jean-Paul Sartre. It is seen by many as one of the defining texts in the Existentialist movement. In his text, Sartre says that the key defining point of Existe ( 1946Events January January 4 Theodore Schurch becomes the last person to be executed for offences committed under the Treachery Act of 1940 January 7 Allied recognize Austrian republic with 1937 borders the country is divided into four occupation zones Januar). In this work, Sartre defends existentialism against its detractors, which ultimately lends itself to a 'dumbing down' of his ideas. This fact makes it a wonderful point of entry for anyone wanting to know more about Sartre's ideas, but lacking a background in philosophy to crawl through his magnamous tome Being and Nothingness.
He graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1929 with a doctorate in philosophy and served as a conscript in the French Army from 1929 to 1931.