Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 – 1980 · France · Philosophy, Literature
Existentialism's public face; declined the Nobel Prize in 1964.
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Who shaped Jean-Paul Sartre, and who they shaped
Inherited from2
- Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 – 1900 · Philosophy, Literature
The death of God is the premise of Sartrean radical freedom.
- Søren Kierkegaard
1813 – 1855 · Philosophy, Theology
Existence preceding essence restates Kierkegaard's primacy of the single individual.
Passed the work to2
- Frantz Fanon
1925 – 1961 · Philosophy, Medicine
Sartre's preface placed The Wretched of the Earth in European debate.
- Simone de Beauvoir
1908 – 1986 · Philosophy, Literature
Their lifelong exchange produced both existential ethics and The Second Sex.
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