Thirty-three years after his death, it is hard for American readers to appreciate the kind of authority that Jean-Paul Sartre once enjoyed in France. For three decades, starting with the end of World ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The image of the existentialist as a cafe-dwelling, chain-smoking, beret-wearing intellectual type comes largely from Sartre ...

Andy Martin reminds us of that in his entertaining survey of two new books about the existentialist philosophers, At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell and The Existentialist Moment by Patrick ...

Jean-Paul Sartre was a prominent French philosopher and novelist, known for his influential ideas on existentialism and war.

David Bryant argues for an optimistic view of life (Face to faith, July 14). He takes as his target the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he accuses of having "demolished just about every ethical and ...

Two striking characteristics distinguished modern France in the years 1944-1975: the power of an intellectual elite that was pro-Communist and anti-democratic even as it preached a philosophy of ...

We Have Only This Life to Live is a collection of Jean-Paul Sartre's essays spanning 40 years, covering everything from New York City to The Sound and the Fury to jazz. Co-editor Ronald Aronson, a ...

When Sartre and Camus worked together on "Combat" after the liberation of France, they would drink and joke together as good friends do. They had great mutual admiration, but from the beginning their ...