Simply Sartre Audiobook Libro.fm

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Born in ParisJeanPaul Sartre19051980 was largely raised by his mother and his maternal grandparents after his father died when he was two He attended the renowned cole Normale Suprieure where he studied psychology philosophy ethics sociology and physics In 1929 he met Simone de Beauvoir who went on to become a celebrated feminist writer and philosopher with whom he had a lifelong intellectual and romantic relationship After serving briefly in the French army during World War II and spending nine months as a prisoner of war Sartre lived under the Occupation in Paris where in 1943 he wrote his bestknown philosophic workBeing and Nothingness one of the foundational texts of existentialism Following the war and for the rest of his life Sartre was deeply engaged in leftwing anticolonialist politics while producing a prodigious number of plays novels philosophical works and critical essays With the popularization of existentialism in the 1960s Sartre became a household name and his celebrity or notoriety was heightened in 1964 when he declined the Nobel Prize in Literature