Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?
Jean-Paul Sartre was born in 1905 in Paris. Sartre is best known for his philosophical theories on existentialism and its connections to social and political struggle. Jean-Paul Sartre not only concentrated on these theories, but also wrote novels, plays and political pamphlets. He was regarded as one of the most prominent leaders of post-war French culture. In 1924, Jean-Paul Sartre began studying philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 1931, he became a Professor of Philosophy and taught at Le Havre. In 1932, he moved to Berlin to study the philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. He also taught at Le Havre and the Lycée Pasteur in Paris from 1937 to 1939. From the end of the Second World War to his death, Sartre made his living as an independent writer. To Jean Paul-Sartre, his philosophies on existentialism were the center of his writing and the core of his identity. Drawing on the teachings he had learned from Husserl and Heidegger, Sartre popularized e
