Thursday, November 24, 2011

Jean Paul Sartre and Existentialism?

how did Jean Paul Sartre get involved with existentialism?|||Albert Schweitzer's first cousin, Anne Marie Schweitzer, became Jean-Paul's mother. His father died within a year of J-P's birth. In this sense, his "No Exit" has an illegitimate child who is drowned by his mother. In J-P's life, his mum took him with her to live with a stern paternal grandfather, Charles Schweitzer. For little "Poulou," life was very harsh; he retreated into reading and writing fantasy and other literature to "escape."





He wrote of his time growing up that it was "dark" and "horrifying," themes that would resurface in his "Nausea" as symptomatic of "rudderless man," which relates to his alienation from father and grandfather, and his self-described "feminization."





He ended up in a good school, with classmates Weil, Levi-Strauss, Merleau-Ponty, and later de Beauvoir.





He studied with Edmund Husserl, but did not experience what the "epoche" imported. Rather, Sartre's more materialistically-conditioned naive experiential understanding of "baby condemned to be free" and responsible for a limited degree of what it becomes, particularly reflects his own worldline.





"A Philosophy of Universality," O. M. Aivanhov,


"Nihilism," Father Seraphim Rose.





|||he's french

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