Essays Tagged: "Jean-Paul Sartre"

I am me and you are you

edom of choice. These three beliefs can then be related to the characters in the existential writer Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit."At first reading of this statement, one notices Tarzan's word choice. " ... me. They would then argue that every person is an individual, not a copy from a predetermined mold. Jean-Paul Sartre also portrays his characters as individuals, not carbon copies of each other. Garci ...

(2 pages) 137 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

information packed resumé with some reflections over Jean Paul Sarte's book "La Nausée"

La nausèe est le premier livre de Jean Paul Sartre. Le plan fictional est que les notes d'un certain Antoine Roquentin son trouvés parmis ...

(2 pages) 53 0 5.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Kierkegaard vs Sartre: An Existentialist Approach.

e defines that life. Two philosophers actively involved in this position were Soren Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre. While both can be considered existentialists, in that the quote above encompasses ... is determined by its own liver, and this idea encompasses much of the philosophy of existentialism. Jean-Paul Sartre and Soren Kierkegaard both partake in this approach. Significant differences exist ...

(4 pages) 142 0 3.5 May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Jean Paul Sartre.

Jean Paul Sartre was someone who had a massive influence on people, yet he did not seem to have the credential ... nd this gave him the momentum, which he needed to keep his place in society with massive influence. Sartre's most successful part of life was his middle ages, and even then, he wrote quantity without ... ter in the creation of existentialism, a term supposedly made up by the media, and later adopted by Sartre.Sartre is a very short man at only five feet two inches. His mother told him as a child that ...

(3 pages) 80 0 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Absolute Responsibility for All ?

AbsoluteResponsibility for All ?Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a French philosopher who believed in existentialism. He was also an ...

(4 pages) 110 0 3.9 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Existentialism and Absurdism. This essay is just to explain what existentialism and absurdism are.

n Philosopher Martin Heidegger is important in its formulation, and the French novelist-philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre has done most to give it its present form and popularity. Existentialism has found ...

(2 pages) 105 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

The Wall by Jean Paul Sartre.

"The Wall" by Jean Paul Sartre'sRegardless of a student's academic abilities, there always seems to be a struggle to achieve ...

(2 pages) 64 0 4.1 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Marcuse's critique of Jean Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness is discussed, and a response is offered from the perspective of a critical rereading of Sartre's text.

nd himself. Could Sartre succeed?Herbert Marcuse's critique of Sartre in Existentialism: Remarks on Jean-Paul Sartre'sL'Etre et le Neant is based on the claim that Sartre's method is ontologically imp ... d C. Hoy and Thomas McCarthy, 7-30. London: Blackwell, 1994.Marcuse, H. "Existentialism: Remarks on Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Etre et Le Neant." In Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 8:3 (1948), 309- ...

(9 pages) 123 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Jean-Paul Sartre the Existentialist, Sigmund Freud the Determinist, and Victor Frankenstein

for their actions. However, an existentialist or a determinist would disagree on such a philosophy. Jean-Paul Sartre is a famous French existentialist. Not only was he an existentialist, but an atheis ... ruth and every action implies a human setting and a human subjectivity". (Sartre, Handout, pg. 254) Jean-Paul Sartre is the most famous French existentialist (1905-1980). A key assertion in his writin ...

(11 pages) 135 0 2.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Show how the theodicies of Iranaeous and Augustine account for natural evil.

the problem of evil, against Gods existence, causing some such as the French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre 1905-1980 to state that God does not exist. Theodicy is a branch of theology concerned with d ...

(4 pages) 85 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

No Exit: Jean-Paul Sartre

In the play, No Exit, written by Jean-Paul Sartre, three souls are united in the same room in hell. Garcin, Inez, and Estelle are pla ...

(2 pages) 28 0 0.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Existentialist traits in works of Henrik Ibsen

vement. The label was inspired by the tendency of some of the writers like Kierkegaard, Heidegger , Sartre and Nietzsche to use the term "existence" for a kind of being or life unique, in their view, ... ives. Though Existentialism can appear in a number of different forms, the focal point as Jean Paul Sartre puts it is "existence precedes essence". The existentialists are of the view that as there is ...

(6 pages) 35 0 3.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism

Jean-Paul Sartre and ExistentialismAn existential hero is a person who "makes himself heroic." (Sart ...

(3 pages) 91 0 5.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Sartre's "No Exit"

worst fears and nightmares. Others do not believe in heaven, hell, or any religion for that matter. Jean-Paul Sartre (an existentialist philosopher) had his own ideas of what hell is. The one act play ...

(5 pages) 20 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Jean-Paul Sartre And His Ideal Of Radical Freedom

Jean-Paul Sartre belongs to a group of philosophers known as existentialist. The basic belief of an ...

(4 pages) 17 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

No Exit

In the play, No Exit, by Jean -Paul Sartre, three people are brought into a hideous sitting room to convey the idea of hell. Garcin an a ...

(6 pages) 14 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

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ls Things Fall Apart (1958) Ben Okri- (1959- ) Nigeria Novels, Non-Fiction The Famished Road (1991) Jean-Paul Sartre (1900-1980) France Novellas, Non-Fiction, Plays, Literary Criticisms Age of Reason ... ls Things Fall Apart (1958) Ben Okri- (1959- ) Nigeria Novels, Non-Fiction The Famished Road (1991) Jean-Paul Sartre (1900-1980) France Novellas, Non-Fiction, Plays, Literary Criticisms Age of Reason ...

(6 pages) 7 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Reader response theory and the

gists credit the reader with having a performative role in the literary experience. Authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Wolfgang Iser, and Hans Robert Jauss are associated with the phenomenological appr ... dea that the reader should be granted freedom to interpret a literary work in any way he/she likes. Jean-Paul Sartre, in his essay entitled "Why Write?", describes this best when he says "the writer a ...

(5 pages) 28 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

John-Paul Satre

Jean-Paul Sartre, the Existentialist, has been called a brilliant French mind. Many people in Americ ... f. From this he derives other progressions like know-doing, being-becoming, and nature-freedom.LIFE Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris on June 21, 1905. His father past away just shortly after, when h ... arn how to read. He would pick a book from his Grandfather?s huge library and learn how to read it. Jean-Paul Sartre was a brilliant man even at the age of five. Finally, at the age of ten he was allo ...

(6 pages) 35 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Existentialism In No Exit

xistentialism in No Exit What would your Hell be like? Devils, flames, deep red and hot? No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre shows exactly what his metaphorical hell would be like. It combines the philosophie ... rder to find existentialism in No Exit, one must first understand the philosophy of existentialism. Jean-Paul Sartre is well-known for his writings that include his existential views. Existentialism i ...

(4 pages) 33 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy