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Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir , 1908-86, French author. A leading exponent of the existentialist movement, she is closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre . Beauvoir taught philosophy at several colleges until 1943, after which she devoted herself to writing. Her novels All Men Are Mortal (1946, tr. 1955), ... Read more
Gabriel Marcel Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Marcel French philosopher Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) described man's place in the world in terms of such fundamental human experiences as relationships, love, fidelity, hope, and faith. His brand of existentialism was said to be largely unknown in the English-speaking world, where it was... Read more
Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre , 1905-80, French philosopher, playwright, and novelist. Influenced by German philosophy, particularly that of Heidegger , Sartre was a leading exponent of 20th-century existentialism . His writings examine man as a responsible but lonely being, burdened with a terrifying freedom... Read more
rationalism rationalism
rationalism [Lat.,=belonging to reason], in philosophy, a theory that holds that reason alone, unaided by experience, can arrive at basic truth regarding the world. Associated with rationalism is the doctrine of innate ideas and the method of logically deducing truths about the world from ... Read more
existentialism existentialism
existentialism , any of several philosophic systems, all centered on the individual and his relationship to the universe or to God. Important existentialists of varying and conflicting thought are Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, Gabriel Marcel, and Jean-Paul Sartre. All... Read more
essence essence
essence in philosophy, the nature of a thing. Aristotle maintained that there is a distinction between the form of a thing—its intelligible, verbally formulable character—and the essence of a thing, i.e., what it is in itself, which is not common to anything else. The essence of a thing... Read more
Blanche Wolf Knopf Blanche Wolf Knopf
Blanche Wolf Knopf American publisher Blanche Wolf Knopf (1894-1966) shaped American literary tastes with her active interest in emerging literary trends and figures. Some of her notable successes included the publication of authors of the Harlem Renaissance, such as the poet Langston Hughes, as... Read more
Henri-Georges Adam Henri-Georges Adam
Adam, Henri-Georges (1904–1967). French sculptor, graphic artist, and designer, born in Paris, the son of a jeweller and goldsmith. He studied metalwork with his father and initially made his reputation with etchings, winning the Blumenthal Prize for them in 1938. In 1943 he had his first... Read more
Jean Genet Jean Genet
Jean Genet , 1910-86, French dramatist. Deserted by his parents as an infant, Genet spent much of his early life in reformatories and prisons. Between 1940 and 1948 he wrote several autobiographical prose narratives dealing with homosexuality and crime, including Our Lady of the Flowers (tr. 1949,... Read more
Nathalie Sarraute Nathalie Sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute , 1900-1999, French novelist, b. Ivanovo, Russia, as Natasha Tcherniak; studied at the Sorbonne and Oxford. A lawyer, she joined (1925) a Paris firm. She began writing in the early 1930s. Stark and revolutionary in technique, Sarraute's nouveaux romans [new novels] Tropismes ... Read more

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