Arts & Letters Daily search results for “sartre” (29)
2012-08-16 | Camus once asked Sartre why he was so relentless a seducer of women. Sartre pointed at his own face: "Have you seen this mug?" more »
2016-02-20 | Pity Sartre! He spent three years wooing Wanda Kosakiewicz. Then Camus turned up and within days slept with her. Sartre never forgave him. more »
2017-01-28 | Camus and Sartre smoked together, womanized together, talked shop. Newspapers covered their every move. They were inseparable. Then Sartre read The Rebel more »
2013-01-27 | The philosopher and the terrorist. In 1974, Sartre met Andreas Baader. They arrived as comrades and departed as something else more »
2012-08-16 | Camus looked like a movie star, all laid-back cool. Sartre looked like a gargoyle. Enter a woman named Wanda more »
2017-12-07 | “A writer must refuse to let himself be turned into an institution,” wrote Sartre, turning down the Nobel. Thus began the Sartre Prize for Prize Refusal more »
2015-03-07 | Hopped up on coffee and amphetamines, Sartre filled notebook upon notebooks with prose both windy and impenetrable more »
2010-01-01 | For collaborators, life in Vichy Paris was sweet. Even for the likes of Sartre, Camus, and Cocteau it was hardly unlivable more »
2018-11-15 | How did Sartre come to embrace Marxism? The tale involves his friendship with Camus, and his work at a clandestine newspaper more »
2020-04-17 | Sartre’s Stalinism. His relationship with the grislier aspects of the Soviet regime aren’t as black and white as his critics make out more »
2019-10-03 | Despite their love, Beauvoir found Sartre rather pathetic. His skirt-chasing didn’t help — nor did his performance in bed more »
2017-08-19 | Sartre compared human freedom to skiing, but he really meant surfing. The action of imposing our will on the world is like riding a wave more »
2013-10-30 | Albert Camus's writings on the Algerian war are marked by their honesty, consistency, even purity. His peers ? Sartre, de Beauvoir, Aron ? were cynical at best more »
2018-03-17 | Whatever happened to alienation? It was once considered central to modern life, the stuff of Sartre, Camus, and Salinger. Now it seems to have vanished more »
2013-11-20 | The FBI's philosophy files. Ever suspicious, J. Edgar Hoover was especially suspicious of French existentialists. He kept his eye on Sartre and Camus more »
2013-05-08 | Postmodern before postmodernism, existentialist before Sartre, ironic before irony was debased: Kierkegaard, rejected in his time, is a man for our time more »
2015-09-24 | Flaubert, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir: French intellectual culture was once the envy of the world. Now it’s mired in malaise more »
2011-01-01 | Susan Sontag called him "our Sartre." For Bill Buckley he was a "bisexualist, a poverty cultist, an anarchist." So many reactions to Paul Goodman more »
2019-07-31 | Ain't no party like an existentialist party. De Beauvoir smoked joints. Sartre took amphetamines and mescaline. But alcohol was tops more »
2023-01-23 | Step aside, Sartre. It is not an exaggeration to say that Karl Jaspers is the forgotten father of existentialism more »
2021-08-25 | The romance between Sartre and Beauvoir was haunted by the friend whom she wrote about again and again more »
2013-06-29 | From philosopher of freedom to apologist for oppression, Jean-Paul Sartre remains a cautionary figure: A great intellect does not make a great man more »
2010-01-01 | In his wisdom, Jean-Paul Sartre saw the problem: "In a football match, everything is complicated by the presence of the other team" more »
2019-08-24 | Sartre and crabs. “After I took mescaline, I started seeing crabs around me all the time.” For help he turned to Lacan more »
2019-05-25 | She had Sartre for conversation; he, only drunks and gamblers. Inside the short-lived long-distance relationship of Nelson Algren and Simone de Beauvoir more »
2018-05-07 | What makes a great editor? The job is bound in a paradox: Running a magazine is inherently plural, but the individual editor — Eliot, Sartre, Silvers — remains dominant more »
2016-09-22 | From 1944 to 1947, Jean-Paul Sartre was pre-eminent among French intellectuals. Why were so many people drawn to him? What was the appeal of existentialism? more »
2019-04-11 | Socialisme et Liberté. Sartre started a nonviolent anti-Nazi group in occupied Paris, reaching out to prominent intellectuals to join. No one was interested more »
2021-02-26 | René Girard’s one-liners: Nietzsche was “so wrong that in some ways he’s right”; Sartre was “too even-keeled to become a true genius” more »