Jean Paul Satre

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Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris on June 21, 1905. He lived and wrote in France throughout most of his life. Sartre, famous for being an existentialist philosopher and writer, he attempted to combine the individualism of his existentialist work with a form of Marxism, which stresses the collective aspect of human existence. Existentialism views the individual as being unique and alone in an indifferent and sometimes hostile universe. In 1929, he graduated from the Ecole Normal Superieure, by which time he had met his life long companion, Simone de Beauvoir Until 1945, Sartre taught in various secondary schools, after which time he devoted himself exclusively to writing and editing the journal Les Temps Modernes. During W.W.II, he spent a year as a prisoner of war and was a key figure among the French intellectuals who resisted the Nazi occupation. Throughout his life, he has influenced millions of people and continues to do so even after his death in 1980....