Jean paul sartre pesentation french foreign language 1

Jean Paul Sartre

Course: Foreign Language 1- FrenchCourse Code: LNG-111Semester: Fall-2012Instructor : Dr. Sarwan Altaf Abbasi Group Member : Noor Nabi Sheikh BB-2095 Hafeez - Allah BB-2084 Kafil Ahmed BBE-661 Yaqoob Ali BM-1113 Maaz Uddin BB-25227

Jean Paul Sartre Introduction

• Born 21 June 1905 Paris, France • Died On 15 April 1980 Paris France• A French Philosopher• A Political Activist• Biographer and Auto biographer• Historian

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Jean Paul Sartre Introduction • Play writer • Novelist

• Screen writer

• Critic Writer

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Jean Paul Sartre Philosophical Views

Existentialism Philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness

Isolation of the individual experience in a hostile

Regards human existence as unexplainable, stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts

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Jean Paul Sartre Philosophical Views

Marxism Sartre also discuss Marxism

Marxism is synthesis of philosophy and political action

Any political practice or theory that is based on interpretation of Marx and Engel’s work

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Jean Paul Sartre Philosophical Views • Atheism is taken granted the loss of is not

mourned

• Man is condemned to freedom

• The meaning of men life is not established before his existence

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Jean Paul Sartre As Historian

• Sartre condemn the idea of historical determinism

• He said that when determinism takes place it becomes and unacceptable to others

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Jean Paul Sartre On World War II

• Sartre served in Meteorological service

• Sartre was captured on 21 June 1940

• While imprisoned he wrote anti Nazi play and existentialism philosophy book

• Sartre escaped in March 1941

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Jean Paul Sartre Offered Nobel Prize

• He was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964

• Which he refused to accept by saying :

“A writer should not allow himself to be tend an

institution”

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Jean Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir

Simone De Beauvoir• philosopher, playwright, philanderer

• De Beauvoir met Sartre in 1929

• Where they were studying for elite French Graduate degree

• Greatest achievement in life was De Beauvoir relationship with Sartre

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Jean Paul Sartre Prominent Writings • Baudelaire, 1947 • Situations, 1947 –1965 • Les mains sales (Dirty

Hands), 1948 • "Orphée Noir" (Black

Orpheus), introduction to Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache. edited by Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1948

• Le diable et le bon dieu (The Devil and the Good Lord), 1951

• Les jeux sont faits (The Game is Up), 1952

• Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr, 1952

• Nekrassov, 1955 • Existentialism and Human

Emotions, 1957 • The Problem of Method, 1957 • Les séquestrés d'Altona (The

Condemned of Altona), 1959

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