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

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* 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

Spade, Class Lecture Notes on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness.

Being and Time influenced many thinkers, including such existentialist thinkers as Jean-Paul Sartre ( although Heidegger distanced himself from existentialism — see below ).

Hoping that his work would be picked up by Gallimard, the publishers of Jean-Paul Sartre's influential bestseller, Being and Nothingness ( 1943 ), he was perturbed when they rejected him, instead selecting Plon.

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.

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.

* Jean-Paul Sartre-Existentialism is a Humanism, Being and Nothingness

In contrast to Brentano's view, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ( Being and Nothingness ) identified intentionality with consciousness, stating that the two were indistinguishable.

Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (), sometimes subtitled A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology is a 1943 book by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

* Being and nothingness: an essay in phenomenological ontology, By Jean-Paul Sartre, Citadel Press, 2001

# Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea ; No Exit ; Being and Nothingness

# Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea ; No Exit ; Being and Nothingness

Being and Time influenced many philosophers and writers, among them Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Alexandre Kojeve, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Lévinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Alain Badiou, Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Bernard Stiegler.

* Being and Nothingness ( 1943 ), by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Concept of Mind has been compared to Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness by Iris Murdoch, who writes that English analytic philosophy shares the same general orientation as continental philosophy.

For example, the concept of the finite and infinite parts of the human self translate to the concepts of ' facticity ' and ' transcendence ' in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness.

In his book Being and Nothingness, the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre defined bad faith as hiding the truth from oneself.

The meditations on the contrast between Being and Doing that the Bishop articulates in the first scene recall the " two irreducible systems of values " that Jean-Paul Sartre suggested in Saint Genet ( 1952 ) Genet " uses simultaneously to think about the world.

* Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre

Under the inspiration of " Being and Nothingness ", this work is affirmed to be the " pursuit of the impossible nothingness " and it was dedicated to Jean-Paul Sartre and " Castor ", i. e. Simone de Beauvoir.