Philosophy
"No Exit" poll
In Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit" is Hell a place or other people?People...3Place...0Existentialism, as a philosophical movement, is most dead now but many of its features including human interaction ideas are still applicable.No Exit [Wikipedia]Scribd...Although many nineteenth century philosophers developed the concepts of existentialism, it was the French writer Jean Paul Sartre who popularized it. His one act play, Huis Clos or No Exit, first produced in Paris in May, 19944, is the clearest example and metaphor for this philosophy. There are only four characters: the VALET, GARCIN, ESTELLE, and INEZ and the entire play takes place in a drawing room, Second Empire style, with a massive bronze ornament on the mantelpiece. However the piece contains essential germs of existentialist thought such as "Hell is other people." As you read the play, put yourself in that drawing room with two people you hate most in the world. No Exit
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The Existentialist Couple: Sartre And Beauvoir
.It is interesting to know that Jean-Paul Sartre, the famous existentialist philosopher and political activist, failed in his first attempt at his agrégation, a form of exit exam which qualifies a person for a teaching post, in 1928. Failing this was...
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Star Wars - Existentialist Edition
I don't know exactly what French-speaking existential philosophers like Jean-Paul Sartre or Albert Camus would have thought about films like Star Wars... and while I can see some respects in which the movies deal with philosophical issues, my guess...
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Birthday Of "bad Boy Of Being"...jean-paul Sartre
The Writer's Almanac... It's the birthday of philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre...born in Paris (1905). This giant of existential thought was also a well-known prankster during his days at the École Normale. He and a friend dropped...
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Simone De Beauvoir And Jean-paul Sartre...an Unconventional Relationship
The Writer's Almanac... It's the birthday of the novelist and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, born in Paris, France (1908). She entered the Sorbonne, and it was there that she met another philosophy student, Jean-Paul Sartre. He was five feet...
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Jean-paul Sartre..."in Camera" [aka "no Exit"]
New Horizons... The original name of the play in French is “Huis Clos” or In Camera, which means a private discussion going on behind closed doors, as in a legal situation when deliberation goes on before a sentence is passed. In its English translation,...
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