print email comment close Jean-Paul Sartre URL: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/ Description: Profile of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), who is "commonly considered the father of Existentialist philosophy, whose writings set the tone for intellectual life in the decade immediately following the Second World War." Includes a bibliography. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, maintained by the Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Author: Flynn, Thomas Extra Keywords French France Library of Congress Subject Headings: Existentialism People Philosophers Sartre, Jean Paul, 1905- LII Database Information: Record 2164 created by Jennifer English on 06/27/2005 Last modification on 06/28/2005 Published: 06/27/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2164