Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Existentialism, Marxism
Main interests	Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, Phenomenology, Ontology
Notable ideas	"Existence precedes essence" "Bad faith" "Nothingness"
Influences Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Jaspers, De Beauvoir, Camus, Kojève, Flaubert, Céline, Merleau-Ponty, Dos Passos
Influenced De Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Frantz Fanon, R.D. Laing, Iris Murdoch, André Gorz, Alain Badiou, Fredric Jameson, Michael Jackson, Albert Camus, Kenzaburo Oe, Doris Lessing, William S. Burroughs, Emmanuel Lévinas

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and critic. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1964, but refused it, saying "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution".^[1] He was a Marxist and an atheist.

1. ↑ The Nobel Foundation (1964). Nobel Prize in Literature 1964 - Press Release. Address by Anders Österling, Member of the Swedish Academy. Retrieved on: 4 February 2012.