PHIL 180 Lecture 17: Sartre on Meaning of Work
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Jean-paul sartre (1905-1980) was a french existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century french philosophy, particularly marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary and philosophical existentialism. Sartre was also noted for his long personal relationship with the feminist author and social theorist simone de beauvoir. He was awarded the 1964 nobel prize in literature which he refused. I(cid:374) his fa(cid:373)ous pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) le(cid:272)ture (cid:862)e(cid:454)iste(cid:374)tialis(cid:373) is a hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)is(cid:373),(cid:863) (cid:894)1946(cid:895) artre set out the (cid:271)asi(cid:272) ideas of his existential philosophy and its relationship to the question of the meaning of life. He begins by noting that the communists have criticized his philosophy as bourgeois; christians have rejected it as morally relative; and others have described it as sordid, unappreciative of beauty, and subjective.
