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JEAN PAUL SARTRE

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Paul Jean SartreFull name :- Jean-Paul Sartre

Born :- 21 June 1905 Paris, France

Died :-15 April 1980(1980-04-15) (aged 74)Paris, France

Era :- 20th-century philosophy

Region :- Western Philosophy

Main inerests :-

Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Literature, Politics, Phenomenology, Ontology

His wife was jean kanapa

HIS CHILDHOOD

He was only child in the family

His father was jean-Buptiste sartre an officer of the french navy

His mother Anne-Marie Sohweitzer

When he was 15 months old,his father died of a fever

A. He gained his primary education at the Ecole normale superieure in France.from 1924 to 1929

B. In 1931 He became the professor of philosophy at Le Havre

C. He got further education in Berlin about the philosophies of Edmund Husserl & Martin

HIS EDUCATION

HIS SERVICE TO THE EDUCATION FIELDAfter becoming the professor of philosophy.He tought at Le havre in 1931

Then he gave his service in loon

From 1937 to 1939 he taught at the lycee pasteur in paris

Since the end of the second world war sartre has been living as an independent

Jean-PauL was a existentialistlism,philosopher,playwright,novelist,screenwriter,political activist,biographer and literary critic

SARTRE AND WORLD WAR 2

I. In 1939 Sartre was drafled in to French army where he served as a meteorologist

II. In 1940 he was captured by german troops in 1940 in padoux & spent nine months

III.Gained freedom in April 1941

HIS CONTEMPORORIES

Che Guevara

Bertrand Russel

Houis Althusser

Fedel castro

Andreas Buader

SARTRE AND LITERATURE

He wrote many books on marxism & Some of his books were

prohibited

“Hell is other people”I loath my childhood and all that remains of

it were some of his books

His other books

• Les pnix nobel

• Nobel lectures

• Anti-semite andjew

SARTRE & POLITICS

•He embraced marxism but did not join the communist

party

•He took a prominent role in the struggle against french

rule in Algeria

•He worked against the vietnam war(U.S.A)

•Sartre set out to give marxism

LATE LIFE & DEATH

He worked on literature in his past age

He won the noble Prize in 1964

Sartre became almost completely blind in 1973

He died on 15th of April in 1980 in Paris of Edema of the Luny

This was an end of the world phenomenen character in world history

THE END

REFERENCE:-

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