Word: existentialist
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...seems rather outdated today. It is essentially a conjuring trick-a preachment of faith without belief, of free will to no purpose. "Atheism is a cruel and long-range affair," Sartre has said. Always faithful in this affair, never publicly flirting with hope or grace (as did his fellow existentialist and fellow Nobel winner Albert Camus), Sartre takes atheism to its grim limits. Man as he sees him is alone in an absurd and meaningless universe...
Jean-Paul Sartre is afraid of compromising himself. In the light of fame it is becoming difficult for him to play the part of the troubled existentialist--the outcast the poor little French orphan with no place to go, nothing to do, and nothing to say. Ever since the first publication of La Nausee (1938) Sartre has subjected himself to a rigorous and naked self-examination and society to a penetrating cross-examination. He values nothing but life itself which at best seems to be nothing more than the meaningless least common denominator of the world around him. What meaning...
Aggiornamento. On a voluntary basis, and with a minimum of formal lectures, De Paul students can now enroll in four courses that explore "man's encounter" with man, God, the world, and morality. The readings are intensive and far-ranging, include Materialist Ludwig Feuerbach, Existentialist Paul Tillich, as well as the doctor angelicus, St. Thomas...
...quarter-century, French Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre has been the symbol of what is best (implacable honesty) and worst (rootless pessimism) about the modern European intellectual. He has been the pre-eminent philosopher of despair. Simultaneously, with his novels and plays he has cast himself as a propagandist on the barricades of social justice-in fact on both sides of the barricades, since despite a markedly Red-leaning political line, he has never joined the Communist Party and has periodically quarreled with it. Living his preachments in private as well as in politics, he has maintained with Simone de Beauvoir...
...waist, his arms dangling to the floor, where his knuckles drag. A Gauloise rests in his gibbon lips, and its smoke meanders from his attractively broken, Z-shaped nose. Out of the Left Bank by the New Wave, he is Jean-Paul Bel-mondo-the natural son of the Existentialist conception, standing for everything and nothing at 738 m.p.h...