Sartre - Hardcover

Mathilde Ramadier; Anais Depommier

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1681121018 ISBN 13: 9781681121017

Publisher: Nbm, 2017

Synopsis

Exploring the fascinating life of the legendary Jean Paul Sartre - the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy's most famous characters!

For some, he was the philosopher of existentialism, for others the constant provocateur, the politically engaged author, the uncertain militant, the repenting bourgeois, the life companion of Simone de Beauvoir... From his first readings in the Luxembourg Garden to his refusal of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean Paul Sartre was all of this at the same time.

Over time, Sartre's philosophy lent itself to his being a public intellectual. He envisaged culture as a very fluid concept; neither pre-determined, nor definitely finished; instead, in true existential fashion, 'culture was always conceived as a process of continual invention and re-invention.'

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About the Author

Mathilde Ramadier was born in the late 1980s in a small village in the Southeast of France. Mathilde began her studies at the National School of applied arts and crafts. Then she moved away from graphics to study aesthetics and psychoanalysis. She completed her studies with a masters in philosophy at the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure. For four years, she has also been running a weekly program on electronic music on Radio Campus Paris. Mathilde now lives in Berlin, where she writes about philosophy in general, sociology and ecology in particular.

Anais Depommier was born in the late 1980s in a small village in the Southeast of France. Growing up a close friend of Mathilde Ramadier, they couldn't do enough sleepovers from one's house to the other. Inseparable at school, they spent their weekends building huts in the bush, watching the gendarmes go by, playing 'Mouse Stampede' on a Macintosh Classic, and reading many comics. When it came time to prepare for the entrance exam to art school, they met later in the evenings at the painter Jean-Michel Petrissan's workshop in Valence. Anais studied drawing for four years, then co-created the OneShot workshop where regular life drawing classes and other exhibitions are held. She now lives in Paris and works in comics, graphics and animation design.

From the Back Cover

Exploring the life of Jean Paul Sartre.

For some he was the philosopher of existentialism, for others the constant provocateur, the politically engaged author, the uncertain militant, the repenting bourgeois, the life companion of Simone de Beauvoir… From his first readings in the Luxembourg Garden to his refusal of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean Paul Sartre was all of this at the same time. In his biographic piece, the life and thoughts that made Sartre a known name are brought to print in rich c

Edition details

• Publisher: Nbm
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1681121018
• ISBN 13: 9781681121017
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160