Jean-Paul Sartre: Conscience to the World Essay -- Biography Sartre Es

Jean-Paul Sartre Conscience to the WorldAt the time of his death on the 15th of April, 1980, at the age of seventy-four, Jean-Paul Sartres greatest literary and philosophical work were twenty-five years in the past. Although the small man existed in the universal mind as the politically inconsistent champion of undemocratic causes and had spend the last seven years of his life in relative stagnation, his check was still great enough to draw a crowd of everywhere fifty thousand people admirers or otherwise for his funeral procession. Sartre was eminently quotable, a favorite in the press, because his statements were always controversial. He was the leader of the shortly popular Existential movement in philosophy which turned quickly into a fad for the disillusioned post-World War I generation, so even when the ideas criticized were not the ideas of Sartres Existentialism, he still came to the public mind. Sartre was alternately celebrated and vilified, depending on which s ide of the issue the speaker or writer was on, and whether or not Sartre had early espoused and possibly later turned against the ideals in question. Despite Sartres many political and philosophical about-faces, fellow Marxist political philosopher Herbert Marcuse verbalise of him, He may not want to be the worlds conscience, but he is. Hayman, 458PoulouJean-Paul Sartre was born on June 21, 1905, and lost his father a little over a year later. His mother, Anne-Marie was raised uneducated in an educated family and moved back in with her own father, the teacher Karl Schweitzer, uncle of the illustrious philosopher and missionary, Albert Schweitzer. She promptly lost control of her infant son. Jean-Paul became the immediate favorite of his g... ...eyes blindness and he consistently lived his life in connection with his views on freedom. He strived, even while he worried about layer struggles, to be an authentic man, the ultimately free man of his early plays.Sartre was prec ocious, brilliant, controversial, changeable, stubborn, self-involved, arrogant, hated, worshiped, versatile, magnetic, and had an vast effect on the world he lived in. In short, he was a creator.BibliographyGerassi, John. Jean-Paul Sartre Hated Conscience of His Century. Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1989.Hayman, Ronald. Sartre A Biography. radical York Simon & Schuster, 1987.Madsen, Axel. hearts and Minds The Common Journey of Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre. New York Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1977.Priest, Stephen. Jean-Paul Sartre Basic Writings. London New York Routledge, 2001.