# Jean-Paul Sartre

- Id: `jean_paul_sartre`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/jean-paul-sartre/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `22411ffeb5f8a307e96d25be79891b07e7d3893f546002926725cab5a5e66fa5`

## Summary

Sartre describes consciousness as a freedom that never begins from nowhere: it chooses within a body, a history and a social situation. Without a ready-made human essence, every act discloses values and carries responsibility for the world it helps to make.

## Overview

Sartre died in Paris on 15 April 1980.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1905-1980",
    "era": "Early twentieth century",
    "distance": "46–121 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 75
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "modern-philosophy",
    "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
    "detail": "French existentialism and committed literature",
    "labels": [
        "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "French existentialism and committed literature"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 1980,
    "display": "1980 CE",
    "reason": "Sartre died in Paris on 15 April 1980."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 20,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Paris",
        "period": "1905-1980, intermittently",
        "description": "Birthplace, principal public and writing setting, and place of death.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://expositions.bnf.fr/sartre/reperes/chrono.htm"
    },
    {
        "name": "Le Havre",
        "period": "1931-1936",
        "description": "Teaching post during the development of Sartre's early philosophical and literary work.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://expositions.bnf.fr/sartre/reperes/chrono.htm"
    },
    {
        "name": "Berlin",
        "period": "1933-1934",
        "description": "Study of phenomenology during a leave from teaching.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://expositions.bnf.fr/sartre/reperes/chrono.htm"
    },
    {
        "name": "Trier prisoner-of-war camp",
        "period": "1940-1941",
        "description": "Sartre was held at the Trier camp, where he staged his first theatrical work at Christmas.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://expositions.bnf.fr/sartre/reperes/chrono.htm"
    }
]
```