Philosophy
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 water balloons from the roof onto dinner guests in tuxedos, shouting, "Thus pissed Zarathustra!" He sometimes showed up naked to official functions, and he vomited on the feet of a school official. After Charles Lindbergh successfully flew across the Atlantic, Sartre and several of his friends announced to the media that Lindbergh would be receiving an honorary degree at the École Normale, then one of them impersonated Lindbergh and convinced the media that he was at the school. There was such an uproar when it turned out to be a hoax that the school's president was forced to resign.
In 1964, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, but he refused it. When he died in 1980, 50,000 people turned out on the streets of Paris to pay their respects.
He wrote: "I was there, standing in front of a window whose panes had a definite refraction index. But what feeble barriers! I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then, anything, anything could happen."
Human, All too Human from the BBC...
Jean-Paul Sartre [Wikipedia]
Jean-Paul Sartre..."In Camera" [aka "No Exit"]
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre...an unconventional relationship
Here'ssssssssssssssssssss...Sartre!
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- "no Exit" Poll
In Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit" is Hell a place or other people? People...3 Place...0 Existentialism, as a philosophical movement, is most dead now but many of its features including human interaction ideas are still applicable. No Exit [Wikipedia]...
Philosophy
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 water balloons from the roof onto dinner guests in tuxedos, shouting, "Thus pissed Zarathustra!" He sometimes showed up naked to official functions, and he vomited on the feet of a school official. After Charles Lindbergh successfully flew across the Atlantic, Sartre and several of his friends announced to the media that Lindbergh would be receiving an honorary degree at the École Normale, then one of them impersonated Lindbergh and convinced the media that he was at the school. There was such an uproar when it turned out to be a hoax that the school's president was forced to resign.
In 1964, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, but he refused it. When he died in 1980, 50,000 people turned out on the streets of Paris to pay their respects.
He wrote: "I was there, standing in front of a window whose panes had a definite refraction index. But what feeble barriers! I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then, anything, anything could happen."
Human, All too Human from the BBC...
Jean-Paul Sartre..."In Camera" [aka "No Exit"]
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre...an unconventional relationship
Here'ssssssssssssssssssss...Sartre!
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- "no Exit" Poll
In Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit" is Hell a place or other people? People...3 Place...0 Existentialism, as a philosophical movement, is most dead now but many of its features including human interaction ideas are still applicable. No Exit [Wikipedia]...