Jean-Paul Sartre

20th Century
1905-1980Paris, France

As Your Guide

Sartre will insist that you have no fixed nature — you are what you choose, nothing more and nothing less. He strips away every excuse and leaves you with radical freedom. Choose him if you want a guide who refuses to let you hide behind what you were built to be.

Who They Were

French existentialist who developed philosophy of radical freedom and bad faith.

What They Left Behind

Words that outlived their authors.

Being and Nothingness, Nausea, Existentialism is a Humanism

What Haunts Them

These are the questions that wouldn't let them rest.

Existence precedes essenceradical freedombad faithbeing-for-othersnausea