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The big ideas which form the intellectual agenda of our age are illuminated by some of the best minds. Melvyn Bragg and three guests investigate the history of ideas and debate their application in modern life. |
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
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Jean-Paul Sartre, French novelist, playwright and philosopher, was king of post-war Paris where the intellectuals re-grouped. He was a mid-century focus of intellectual influence.
Sartre's own life was coloured by jazz, affairs, Simone de Beauvoir, an extraordinary output of plays, novels, biographies, philosophical treatises and the camaraderie of intellectual discussions in the cafés of the Left Bank of the Seine. He was also politically active in many major controversies. He produced some wonderful statements: "my heart is on the left, like everyone else's", he wrote, or "a human person is what he is not, not what he is", or "we are condemned to be free".
How do his novels and plays carry Sartre's ideas? And what light does Sartre's life bring to bear on his influential philosophy and how did he put his ideas into practice?
Contributors
Jonathan Rée, philosopher and historian
Benedict O'Donohoe, Principal Lecturer in French at the University of the West of England and Secretary of the UK Society for Sartrean Studies
Christina Howells, Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College
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