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...Jean-Paul Sartre, 74, French existentialist philosopher who embraced Communism and later Maoism and deeply influenced a generation of postwar intellectuals. In novels (Nausea), plays (No Exit) and tracts (Being and Nothingness), Sartre contended that God is dead and that man thus defines himself through his own actions...
...Jean-Paul Sartre...
...once remarked, with a humor rare in his profession, that sex preoccupied him far more than philosophy. He did not write like a philosopher either, for he commanded a graceful prose style that could turn the subtlest concept into a memorable aphorism or a playable drama. But Jean-Paul Sartre managed to become an influential philosopher at a moment in history when philosophers had ceased to influence almost anybody...
...DIED. Jean-Paul Sartre, 74, French existentialist philosopher and man of leftist letters; of heart disease; in Paris (see WORLD...
...lived to see it, Jean-Paul Sartre would have appreciated last night's 5-4 overtime victory by the New York Islanders over the Boston Bruins in the second game of their NHL quarterfinal series...