Jean-Paul Sartre

(1905 –1980)

1. French Political Philosopher.
2. Main thinker of Existentialism (explores the problem of human existence and centres on the lived experience of the thinking, feeling, acting individual.)
3. Also known proponent of phenomenology and Marxism
4. Deep impact on critical theory and post-colonial theory
5. Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused to accept that!

Books:

1. Being and Nothingness - 1943
2. Existentialism Is a Humanism - 1947