Jean-Paul Sartre - a famous writer, the greatest philosopher of his time, an active public figure

Jean-Paul Sartre was born in 1905, on June 21, in Paris. His father was a naval officer who died when the boy was only one year old. He was brought up by his mother, grandmothers and grandfather. Sartre was a writer, philosopher, playwright and essayist. In 1929 he graduated from the school and for the next ten years devoted himself to traveling, teaching philosophy in French lycées.

His work and achievements

Jean-Paul Sartre published his first novel entitled "Nausea" in 1938. Then came out his book "The Wall" with little stories. During the Second World War, the writer was an active participant in the hostilities. Almost a year he spent in the camp for prisoners of war. Then he became a participant in the resistance. Being in the occupation, in 1943 he wrote his most famous work "Being and Nothingness". His plays "Behind the Locked Door" and "Flies" were very popular.

Sartre Jean-Paul thanks to his extraordinary mind became the leader of the existentialist movement and was one of the most talked about and famous authors in post-war France. He was one of the founders of the magazine "New Times". In the 50's, Sartre began to cooperate with the French Communist Party. And in the 70's he became editor of the newspaper that was banned at the time and took an active part in the demonstrations.

Among the later works can be identified "Alton's Recluse", "Criticism of Dialectical Reason", "Words", "Trojans", "The Ghost of Stalin", "In a family not without a monster." For his work, Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964. However, the writer refused.

Philosophy

At the beginning of his philosophical path, Jean-Paul Sartre rejects idealism and materialism. He takes them for a variety of reductionism, which reduces the personality to any bodily combinations. According to the philosopher, in this case, the autonomy of a person, his freedom is lost, the meaning of his being is lost. Sartre despised the fashionable psychoanalysis of the 1920s, considering it a restriction on human freedom . His views and understanding of freedom, he describes in the "Holy Wife".

Freedom, according to Sartre, is the central concept in philosophy. It appears as something absolute, forever given to man. This concept includes, above all, freedom of choice, which no one can take from a person. This position is most fully described in the book "Jean-Paul Sartre. Existentialism is humanism. "

The meaning of the entire existing world is attached to human activity. Each subject is a proof of individual human significance. Giving him this or that meaning, a person forms himself as an individual.

Universal recognition

Jean-Paul Sartre died in 1980. The official funeral did not take place, as the writer himself asked before his death. A well-known writer, the greatest philosopher of his time, an active public figure most of all in people appreciated sincerity. And I wanted to feel it even after death. The funeral procession moved leisurely along Paris, along all the places beloved and dear to Sartre. During this time, about 50 thousand people joined the procession. This eloquently speaks about public recognition and love.