A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre.

In calling his work Being and Nothingness an " essay in phenomenological ontology " Jean-Paul Sartre follows Heidegger in defining the human essence as ambiguous, or relating fundamentally to such ambiguity.

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

" Ideen advanced his transition to a " transcendental interpretation " of phenomenology, a view later criticized by, among others, Jean-Paul Sartre.

Jean-Paul Sartre was also largely influenced by Husserl, although he later came to disagree with key points in his analyses.

The first prominent existentialist philosopher to adopt the term as a self-description was Jean-Paul Sartre.

Many of the literary works of Søren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus contain descriptions of people who encounter the absurdity of the world.

*" Existentialism is a Humanism ", a lecture given by Jean-Paul Sartre

Albert Camus opposed both Nazi fascism and Stalinist communism, leading to a split with Jean-Paul Sartre.

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980 ) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer of the French Navy, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer.

As a man, if a certain Jean-Paul Sartre is remembered, I would like people to remember the milieu or historical situation in which I lived ,... how I lived in it, in terms of all the aspirations which I tried to gather up within myself.

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir at the Balzac Memorial

* Aronson, Ronald ( 1980 ) Jean-Paul Sartre – Philosophy in the World.

* Gerassi, John ( 1989 ) Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century.

* Judaken, Jonathan ( 2006 ) " Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual.

* Kirsner, Douglas ( 2003 ) The Schizoid World of Jean-Paul Sartre and R. D.

* Scriven, Michael ( 1999 ) Jean-Paul Sartre: Politics and Culture in Postwar France.

* Thody, Philip ( 1964 ) Jean-Paul Sartre.

Sulla filosofia politica di Jean-Paul Sartre, Macerata, EUM, 2010.

* John Gerassi, Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century, Volume 1: Protestant or Protester ?, University of Chicago Press, 1989.

* Axel Madsen, Hearts and Minds: The Common Journey of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, William Morrow & Co, 1977.

* Jean-Paul Sartre and Benny Levy, Hope Now: The 1980 Interviews, translated by Adrian van den Hoven, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

* Jonathan Webber The existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, London: Routledge, 2009

* Jean-Paul Sartre ( 1905 – 1980 ): Existentialism Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Many of the Absurdists were contemporaries with Jean-Paul Sartre, the philosophical spokesman for Existentialism in Paris, but few Absurdists actually committed to Sartre's own Existentialist philosophy, as expressed in Being and Nothingness, and many of the Absurdists had a complicated relationship with him.

Situated on the left bank of the River Seine, this central arrondissement which includes the historic districts of Saint-Germain-des-Prés ( surrounding the Abbey founded in the 6th century ) and Luxembourg ( surrounding the Palace and its Gardens ) has played a major role throughout Paris history and is well known for its café culture and the revolutionary intellectualism ( see: Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir ) and literature ( see: Paul Éluard, Boris Vian, Albert Camus, Françoise Sagan ) it has hosted.

Existentialism and Humanism () is a 1946 philosophical work by Jean-Paul Sartre.

* Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism Is a Humanism ( translated by Carol Macomber, introduction by Annie Cohen-Solal, notes and preface by Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre ) Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007 ISBN 978-0-300-11546-8

* Jean-Paul Sartre — Existentialism and Human Emotions

* Existentialism Is a Humanism, Jean-Paul Sartre 1946

Existentialism was coined by Jean-Paul Sartre's statement that for human beings " existence precedes essence.

* Essays in Existentialism Jean-Paul Sartre

* Existentialism is a Humanism Jean-Paul Sartre

* Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre

* Jean-Paul Sartre ( 1905-1980 ): Existentialism From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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Introduction to Critique of Dialectical Reason, I. Marxism & Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre 1960

* 1793 – Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.

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* 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.

** A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.

Jean-Paul Sartre offers a critique of Freud's theory of the unconscious in Being and Nothingness, based on the claim that consciousness is essentially self-conscious.

Jean-Paul Belmondo ( ; born 9 April 1933 ) is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.

Another example of mistaken misanthropy is Jean-Paul Sartre's quote " Hell is other people.

At the terminal, Luc is spotted by Inspector Jean-Paul Cardon ( Jean Reno ) who insists on giving Luc a ride during which he searches his bag.

The final scene shot in Paris was at the Gare Saint-Lazare train station where Luc is chased by police inspector Jean-Paul Cardon ( Jean Reno ) while trying to board a train south to Cannes.

A prime example of the European tradition is Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, which is very different from the works of Popper, whose philosophy was for a time highly influential in the UK where he resided ( see below ).

The land of Illyria is the setting for William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mains Sales and in Lloyd Alexander's The Illyrian Adventure.

The President of the Council is Jean-Paul Pourquier, who represents the canton of Massegros.

The most prominent figure among the existentialists is Jean-Paul Sartre whose ideas in his book Being and Nothingness ( L ' être et le néant ) are heavily influenced by Being and Time ( Sein und Zeit ) of Martin Heidegger, although Heidegger later stated that he was misunderstood by Sartre.

The trial of Jean-Paul Akayesu established precedent that rape is a crime of genocide.

In his function as mayor, he is attacked by Camille Desmoulins and Jean-Paul Marat as be too conservative.

For this particular interpretation of the play, it is assumed that the action takes place in Hell ( perhaps in reference to Jean-Paul Sartre's famous assertion, ' Hell is — other people ' though T. S. Eliot ’ s rebuttal, “ Hell is oneself ,” is probably more accurate.