Jean-Paul Sartre was a French novelist and philosopher who is famous for his development and defense of atheistic existential philosophy. Sartre was unusual in that he wrote philosophy both for philosophers and for lay people. Works aimed at the former were typical philosophical books while works aimed at the latter were plays or novels. All expressed the same basic ideas, but in different forms.
Sartre was active in the French Resistance when the Nazis controlled his country, and he tried to apply his existentialist philosophy to real-life political problems of his age. As a result, he remained through his life also a committed Marxist, although he repudiated the communist party in France.
The central theme of Sartre's philosophy w
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