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Philosophers in 90 Minutes #20
Sartre in 90 Minutes
Sarte's life and ideas presented in entertaining and accessible fashion--another title in the highly successful "90 Minutes" series.
96 pages, Paperback
First published May 25, 1998
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Paul Strathern
160 books543 followersPaul Strathern (born 1940) is a English writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant Navy over a period of two years. He then lived on a Greek island. In 1966 he travelled overland to India and the Himalayas. His novel A Season in Abyssinia won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1972.
Besides five novels, he has also written numerous books on science, philosophy, history, literature, medicine and economics.
Besides five novels, he has also written numerous books on science, philosophy, history, literature, medicine and economics.
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March 10, 2011
I've enjoyed this series in the past, they're usually concise accounts of the subjects life with some of their major philosophical ideas thrown in for good measure. In this book though it became fairly clear that the author has little time or respect for Sartre, both as a person and for his ideas. This is a shame on two counts. One - In a book of this size it doesn't pay to call an idea "nonsense" if you are then limited by size restraints to be able back up that claim with concrete examples. It leaves the reader, particularly the philosophical reader, frustrated and untrusting - I always like to know why, in the words of the author, a philosophical idea is “obviously nonsense”. And two – I do have a healthy respect for Sartre and his philosophy and in the few direct comparisons between the author’s ideas and Sartre’s the author comes off as shrill and snide, not to mention unconvincing.
Overall a great series but this entry feels too personal to the author to be considered ‘good’. Strathern usually manages to stay in the background of his work, which makes it far more enjoyable for the reader. Maybe he should have opted to leave Sartre out of the series all together.
EDIT: It CAN be read in 90 minutes!
Overall a great series but this entry feels too personal to the author to be considered ‘good’. Strathern usually manages to stay in the background of his work, which makes it far more enjoyable for the reader. Maybe he should have opted to leave Sartre out of the series all together.
EDIT: It CAN be read in 90 minutes!
December 22, 2024
”John Paul Sartre was the most popular philosopher in history during his lifetime.”
”He may not have been the first existentialist, but he was the first to publicly accept this label. He was also one of its most able exponents.”
John-Paul Sartre is indelibly linked with the philosophy of existentialism, and was an unlikely celebrity philosopher during his lifetime. As such, he’s a prime subject for the pithy, irreverent In 90 Minutes series, which tends to go heavy on biographical details. For the foremost existentialist, life as he lived it, down to the drinking of an apricot cocktail, was philosophy.
This brief little book is a snappy introduction to Sartre’s life and work, with just the right mixture of irreverence and seriousness to whet the appetite to seek out more.
”He became the spokesman for existentialism at the opportune moment when this philosophy filled the spiritual gap left amidst the ruins of Europe in the aftermath of World War II.”
”where politics was concerned, Sartre wrote about almost everything. Alas, events prove him wrong about almost everything.”
”Emerging from his shell, he developed a prodigious thirst for beer, and discovered to his delight that young women, bamboozled by his intellect, were capable of finding his ugliness attractive.”
”The abiding passion of his life was writing. All else would always remain secondary. Apart from writing he believed in travel, polygamy, and transparency.”
”Existentialism was the philosophy that showed the ultimate freedom of the individual, succinctly encapsulated by the nightclub singer, “Whatever you do, you become.”Existentialism could be as shallow as this, and, in the hands of Sartre, as profound as any contemporary philosophy.”
”He may not have been the first existentialist, but he was the first to publicly accept this label. He was also one of its most able exponents.”
John-Paul Sartre is indelibly linked with the philosophy of existentialism, and was an unlikely celebrity philosopher during his lifetime. As such, he’s a prime subject for the pithy, irreverent In 90 Minutes series, which tends to go heavy on biographical details. For the foremost existentialist, life as he lived it, down to the drinking of an apricot cocktail, was philosophy.
This brief little book is a snappy introduction to Sartre’s life and work, with just the right mixture of irreverence and seriousness to whet the appetite to seek out more.
”He became the spokesman for existentialism at the opportune moment when this philosophy filled the spiritual gap left amidst the ruins of Europe in the aftermath of World War II.”
”where politics was concerned, Sartre wrote about almost everything. Alas, events prove him wrong about almost everything.”
”Emerging from his shell, he developed a prodigious thirst for beer, and discovered to his delight that young women, bamboozled by his intellect, were capable of finding his ugliness attractive.”
”The abiding passion of his life was writing. All else would always remain secondary. Apart from writing he believed in travel, polygamy, and transparency.”
”Existentialism was the philosophy that showed the ultimate freedom of the individual, succinctly encapsulated by the nightclub singer, “Whatever you do, you become.”Existentialism could be as shallow as this, and, in the hands of Sartre, as profound as any contemporary philosophy.”
February 12, 2017
About the death of his father when Sartre was age one, he says, "the greatest event of my life. . . . Had he lived my father would have lain down on top of me and squashed me." He also claims, "I hate my childhood and everything that survives from it."
A philosophy teacher perceptively remarked about Sartre's "excessive elaboration of insufficiently clarified ideas."
Rather than bathe, Sartre took up pipe smoking to mask his odor, an idea he got from Simone de Beauvoir.
Here's where I think Sartre really goes off the deep end in his philosophy for me. We have no right to bemoan our fate. We must take complete responsibility for our lives. Every individual wills his own destiny: he wills his character and even the circumstances under which his character acts. That means that Sartre himself was responsible for WWII and must accept responsibility and act accordingly. "This is my war; it is in my image, and I deserve it . . . everything happens as if I carried the entire responsibility for this war . . . So I am this war."
In some ways, it surprises me that I think I understand why he says that. I took responsibility for the Vietnam War and volunteered to go there, as long as it was under my own conditions. I made the best of my life. However, I am a loyal follower of the NH philosopher Genetopsis. He denied free will. We are products of three forces beyond our control: heredity, environment, and chance.
Sartre worked as a meteorologist in the French army. He was captured and sent to Germany where he studied Heidegger in POW camp. For Heidegger, the utmost certainty was my dasein, literally "being there" but more helpfully translated as "being-in-the-world." My fundamental sense of being is frustrated by the distractions of everyday existence. "Only in the anticipation of death" do we grasp "the finitude of one's existence, it pulls one away from the unending multiplicities of possibilities which immediately present themselves--possibilities such as comfortableness, shirking, and taking things lightly." We must be "free for death." Heidegger himself did not seem to live this way. He was a university professor with a free lodge in the Black Forest. He never apologized for his silence on the Nazi regime.
For Sartre, we must choose what we do. Increase my consciousness. Become more self aware and more aware of my predicament. Accept responsibility for my predicament, my actions, and the self I create with those actions. With no ultimate Good or Evil, no human activity is intrinsically better than any other. We must accept our equivalency. We choose to make one act better than another by our own choice. We act in bad faith when we delude ourselves, especially when we attempt to rationalize human existence by imposing on it meaning or coherence. This can be done by accepting religion or any set of given values. It even includes science if it imposes an overall meaning on life. Therefore, acting in bad faith means avoiding responsibility for one's actions by shifting this on to some outside influence.
"There is no such thing as human nature, because there is no all-seeing God to have a conception of it. . . . A human being is nothing else but what he makes of himself; he exists only as much as he realizes himself. He is thus nothing more than the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is."
In Being and Nothingness, Sartre says, "What I am is nothingness, which is an absence of being. What I long for is the being that surrounds me, which I lack." Our actions and desires are "tributaries of this flow toward being." We desire the world, to possess it, to be it. In some sense, I become the objects I possess. By possessing something, my nothingness becomes being. I will also thus become being in the eyes of others. So when I publish a poem and someone praises me, I have become something in the world. I can avoid the nothingness.
The same thing happens when I destroy or consume something. Sartre smoked two packs a day.
"My freedom is choosing to be God, a choice which is manifest and echoed in all my actions."
"Existence is futile."
"Man is a useless passion."
Juliette Greco became famous singing existentialist songs in the Latin Quarter. She wore a black dress. He sat at his table writing. Both became tourist sights.
"We are alone, without excuses. That is what I mean when I say that man is condemned to be free."
Gide has a man spontaneously push a man from a train. And Camus had his famous murder in The Stranger "because of the sun."
"Man is condemned to be free."
"The world of explanations and reasons is not that of existence."
"The essential thing is contingency. In other words, by logical definition, existence is not necessity. To exist just means to be there; what exists just simply appears and lets itself be encountered. You can never deduce it."
"The first effect of existentialism is that it puts every man in possession of himself as he is, and places the entire responsibility for his existence upon his own shoulders."
"It is inadmissible that a man should pass judgment on Man. Existentialism does away with this sort of judgment; an existentialist will never take Man as the end, since Man is still to be determined."
"Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, maintains that if God doesn't exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence--that is, a being which can exist before it can be defined before any conception of it. That being is Man--or, as Heidegger calls it, human reality. . . . Man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world--and defines himself afterwards. . . . Man is not definable because to begin with he is nothing. He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of himself."
"Consciousness is complete emptiness (because the entire world is outside it)."
"My acts cause values to spring up like partridges."
"Hell is other people."
A philosophy teacher perceptively remarked about Sartre's "excessive elaboration of insufficiently clarified ideas."
Rather than bathe, Sartre took up pipe smoking to mask his odor, an idea he got from Simone de Beauvoir.
Here's where I think Sartre really goes off the deep end in his philosophy for me. We have no right to bemoan our fate. We must take complete responsibility for our lives. Every individual wills his own destiny: he wills his character and even the circumstances under which his character acts. That means that Sartre himself was responsible for WWII and must accept responsibility and act accordingly. "This is my war; it is in my image, and I deserve it . . . everything happens as if I carried the entire responsibility for this war . . . So I am this war."
In some ways, it surprises me that I think I understand why he says that. I took responsibility for the Vietnam War and volunteered to go there, as long as it was under my own conditions. I made the best of my life. However, I am a loyal follower of the NH philosopher Genetopsis. He denied free will. We are products of three forces beyond our control: heredity, environment, and chance.
Sartre worked as a meteorologist in the French army. He was captured and sent to Germany where he studied Heidegger in POW camp. For Heidegger, the utmost certainty was my dasein, literally "being there" but more helpfully translated as "being-in-the-world." My fundamental sense of being is frustrated by the distractions of everyday existence. "Only in the anticipation of death" do we grasp "the finitude of one's existence, it pulls one away from the unending multiplicities of possibilities which immediately present themselves--possibilities such as comfortableness, shirking, and taking things lightly." We must be "free for death." Heidegger himself did not seem to live this way. He was a university professor with a free lodge in the Black Forest. He never apologized for his silence on the Nazi regime.
For Sartre, we must choose what we do. Increase my consciousness. Become more self aware and more aware of my predicament. Accept responsibility for my predicament, my actions, and the self I create with those actions. With no ultimate Good or Evil, no human activity is intrinsically better than any other. We must accept our equivalency. We choose to make one act better than another by our own choice. We act in bad faith when we delude ourselves, especially when we attempt to rationalize human existence by imposing on it meaning or coherence. This can be done by accepting religion or any set of given values. It even includes science if it imposes an overall meaning on life. Therefore, acting in bad faith means avoiding responsibility for one's actions by shifting this on to some outside influence.
"There is no such thing as human nature, because there is no all-seeing God to have a conception of it. . . . A human being is nothing else but what he makes of himself; he exists only as much as he realizes himself. He is thus nothing more than the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is."
In Being and Nothingness, Sartre says, "What I am is nothingness, which is an absence of being. What I long for is the being that surrounds me, which I lack." Our actions and desires are "tributaries of this flow toward being." We desire the world, to possess it, to be it. In some sense, I become the objects I possess. By possessing something, my nothingness becomes being. I will also thus become being in the eyes of others. So when I publish a poem and someone praises me, I have become something in the world. I can avoid the nothingness.
The same thing happens when I destroy or consume something. Sartre smoked two packs a day.
"My freedom is choosing to be God, a choice which is manifest and echoed in all my actions."
"Existence is futile."
"Man is a useless passion."
Juliette Greco became famous singing existentialist songs in the Latin Quarter. She wore a black dress. He sat at his table writing. Both became tourist sights.
"We are alone, without excuses. That is what I mean when I say that man is condemned to be free."
Gide has a man spontaneously push a man from a train. And Camus had his famous murder in The Stranger "because of the sun."
"Man is condemned to be free."
"The world of explanations and reasons is not that of existence."
"The essential thing is contingency. In other words, by logical definition, existence is not necessity. To exist just means to be there; what exists just simply appears and lets itself be encountered. You can never deduce it."
"The first effect of existentialism is that it puts every man in possession of himself as he is, and places the entire responsibility for his existence upon his own shoulders."
"It is inadmissible that a man should pass judgment on Man. Existentialism does away with this sort of judgment; an existentialist will never take Man as the end, since Man is still to be determined."
"Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, maintains that if God doesn't exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence--that is, a being which can exist before it can be defined before any conception of it. That being is Man--or, as Heidegger calls it, human reality. . . . Man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world--and defines himself afterwards. . . . Man is not definable because to begin with he is nothing. He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of himself."
"Consciousness is complete emptiness (because the entire world is outside it)."
"My acts cause values to spring up like partridges."
"Hell is other people."
June 10, 2019
اگرچه کتابی کوچک بود اما اطلاعات اجمالی خوبی درباره سارتر؛ اندیشه ها، چگونگی زندگی اش داشت. زبان ساده و روان آن در بیان مفاهیم نقشی موثر داشت. مثلا درباره ی اگزیستانسیالیسم به زبان بسیار ساده توضیح داد.در صورتی که بسیاری از کتب نقد ادبی یا فلسفی بسیار پیچیده توضیح داده اند.
October 30, 2023
Nuevamente me sucede que la voz del autor de estas ediciones me perturba. Solo quiero que se calle, que guarde silencio un rato. Cuando lo hace, disfruto más la lectura.
Ahora, en lo que a Sartre respecta:
Coincido con el absurdo y con lo fútil de la vida en un porcentaje no menor, sin embargo, difiero profundamente de la idea de libertad en la que el individuo posee plena facultad de decidir y construir su existencia -conciencia- sin considerar la influencia de un Otro. El mismo Sartre después abandona esa idea, la que desde mi punto de vista desvincula completamente - e incluso de manera enfermiza - las condiciones materiales reales y concretas en las que el ser habita, las cuales pueden influir en su libertad y en la construcción de su existencia-conciencia-.
Me quedo con la evolución del pensamiento de Sartre hacia un enfoque más vinculado a lo social, con ese Sartre marxista - que peleaba solo, con su escritura y sus acciones - que reivindica, por ejemplo, una literatura que responde a su contexto, entre otras cosas.
De sus primeros años y de su relación con Simone de Beauvoir destaco la búsqueda de nuevas formas de relacionarse en pareja. No obstante, debo decir que la existencia de relaciones con menores - según lo que se plantea en el texto - me perturba demasiado, y según lo que se dice en este libro Simón de Beauvoir propició esto. Quiero investigar al respecto.
Ahora estoy leyendo “¿Qué es la literatura?” de su autoría (Sartre). Dejo pendiente para después “El existencialismo es un humanismo”, que me lo traje en físico y que presenta de manera sintética y más avanzada su existencialismo -hasta donde tengo entendido, con un vínculo más social y menos individualista-, no de forma tan limitada como en “El ser y la nada”.
Voy a seguir leyendo los libros de esta línea solo porque ya los compré. Mi consuelo es que fueron muy económicos. Si alguien piensa pagar un dinero significativo por ellos, le diría que no lo hiciera. Lo dejo como dato.
Ahora, en lo que a Sartre respecta:
Coincido con el absurdo y con lo fútil de la vida en un porcentaje no menor, sin embargo, difiero profundamente de la idea de libertad en la que el individuo posee plena facultad de decidir y construir su existencia -conciencia- sin considerar la influencia de un Otro. El mismo Sartre después abandona esa idea, la que desde mi punto de vista desvincula completamente - e incluso de manera enfermiza - las condiciones materiales reales y concretas en las que el ser habita, las cuales pueden influir en su libertad y en la construcción de su existencia-conciencia-.
Me quedo con la evolución del pensamiento de Sartre hacia un enfoque más vinculado a lo social, con ese Sartre marxista - que peleaba solo, con su escritura y sus acciones - que reivindica, por ejemplo, una literatura que responde a su contexto, entre otras cosas.
De sus primeros años y de su relación con Simone de Beauvoir destaco la búsqueda de nuevas formas de relacionarse en pareja. No obstante, debo decir que la existencia de relaciones con menores - según lo que se plantea en el texto - me perturba demasiado, y según lo que se dice en este libro Simón de Beauvoir propició esto. Quiero investigar al respecto.
Ahora estoy leyendo “¿Qué es la literatura?” de su autoría (Sartre). Dejo pendiente para después “El existencialismo es un humanismo”, que me lo traje en físico y que presenta de manera sintética y más avanzada su existencialismo -hasta donde tengo entendido, con un vínculo más social y menos individualista-, no de forma tan limitada como en “El ser y la nada”.
Voy a seguir leyendo los libros de esta línea solo porque ya los compré. Mi consuelo es que fueron muy económicos. Si alguien piensa pagar un dinero significativo por ellos, le diría que no lo hiciera. Lo dejo como dato.
November 28, 2021
I listened to this short work after listening to Sartre's "La Nausea," and I'm actually glad I didn't know some of this stuff going into that novel, as it might have kept me from reading it at all. In this ninety-minute overview of Sartre and some of his key works, I learned that his most famous passage of La Nausea (the chestnut root passage) was actually inspired by a mescaline-fueled hallucination. I also learned a number of other things about him that would get him cancelled in a heartbeat in today's society and that throw into doubt the originality and any long-term value of his works. It Sounds like if I want to understand existentialism, I'd be better off going straight to Kierkegaard and Heidegger than spending any more time on Sartre. And if I'm going to read works borne of influential drug experiences, there's more than enough Coleridge and Huxley to keep me busy.
July 26, 2024
Another fine outing from Strathern. He provides biographical notes with his usual snotty descriptions. At one point, he says of Sartre “he is a one-man band of intellectual awkwardness.”
He spends time on “Nausea” and “Existentialism is a Humanism” and “Being and Nothingness.” He discusses ‘absurdity’ and its different intonations in French and English. He spends time discussing how the arch-individualist turned to Marxism and became the gadfly of radical movements across the globe.
He is quite sympathetic to Sartre, overall.
He spends time on “Nausea” and “Existentialism is a Humanism” and “Being and Nothingness.” He discusses ‘absurdity’ and its different intonations in French and English. He spends time discussing how the arch-individualist turned to Marxism and became the gadfly of radical movements across the globe.
He is quite sympathetic to Sartre, overall.
August 17, 2024
The authors contempt for his chosen subjects is pretty off-putting.
For example, at one point he attempts to correct the record so that Sartre does not mistakenly look good or cool regarding how he got out of a Nazi Concentration Camp. According to the legend, Sartre escaped from a Nazi Concentration Camp. Don’t believe it though, because the author knows he actually only forged documents and used false identifications to get past the guards and establish his freedom to move about in the city.
That's called an "escape," dude. This constant obsession with trying to make good things look bad and bad things look worse is a primary characteristic of this author's work and it makes him seem insincere and unwilling to admit to basic facts out of a childish petulance. You don't have to agree with everyone, but there's an ocean between agreeing with them and trying to make them look bad. If you hate this subject so much, write about something else.
Grow up.
For example, at one point he attempts to correct the record so that Sartre does not mistakenly look good or cool regarding how he got out of a Nazi Concentration Camp. According to the legend, Sartre escaped from a Nazi Concentration Camp. Don’t believe it though, because the author knows he actually only forged documents and used false identifications to get past the guards and establish his freedom to move about in the city.
That's called an "escape," dude. This constant obsession with trying to make good things look bad and bad things look worse is a primary characteristic of this author's work and it makes him seem insincere and unwilling to admit to basic facts out of a childish petulance. You don't have to agree with everyone, but there's an ocean between agreeing with them and trying to make them look bad. If you hate this subject so much, write about something else.
Grow up.
September 10, 2021
Well done thumbnail sketch.
Strathern does a decent job of interweaving Sartre’s life and thought. I particularly liked his tracing of the roots of his Existentialism to Husserl and Heidegger. Would have liked deeper analysis of Sartre’s works’ relation to that of Camus. Still, a good introduction to a complex thinker. Four Stars ****
Strathern does a decent job of interweaving Sartre’s life and thought. I particularly liked his tracing of the roots of his Existentialism to Husserl and Heidegger. Would have liked deeper analysis of Sartre’s works’ relation to that of Camus. Still, a good introduction to a complex thinker. Four Stars ****
April 13, 2017
هيچكس نمى تواند زندگى را در چشم انداز روبروى خود قرار دهد چرا كه خود درون آن زندگى مى كند - زندگى تورا از پشت مى ربايد و تو خود را درون آن مى يابى .
February 12, 2021
Being and Nothingness added to the to-read list.
September 11, 2022
I wouldn't be surprised if this has the most Sartre insults per capita of any book out there.
May 25, 2021
Автор не очень высоко ценит труды Сартра.
Биография Сартра наложила большой отпечаток на его творчество (а иначе и не бывает).
В книге даётся краткий обзор трудов и философии Сартра. При этом отмечается, что в течение жизни мировоззрение философа менялось.
После этой краткой книги - за Сартра браться в первую очередь не буду.
Биография Сартра наложила большой отпечаток на его творчество (а иначе и не бывает).
В книге даётся краткий обзор трудов и философии Сартра. При этом отмечается, что в течение жизни мировоззрение философа менялось.
После этой краткой книги - за Сартра браться в первую очередь не буду.
January 19, 2021
Оценочно, панибратски, биографично, невнятно.
Так как полноценно читать [про] всех этих великих мыслителей у меня толком не выходит, да и двигаться от простого к сложному легче, то мне давно было интересно почитать что-то из таких серий, редкие отзывы не были ужасными. Сартр был выбран как единственный, в ком я хоть что-то понимаю. Может не все личности в этой серии так отвратно разобраны, может хорошие отзывы были на другую подобную серию, но желание отбило. Лучше б Рассела почитать и не выпендриваться.
“Ванда была наполовину русской, имела длинные белые волосы и анархические настроения (читала Спинозу, бегала босиком по снегу и т.д.).”
Бегаешь босиком? Чёртов русский анархист!
Одна звезда, потому что всё-таки было несколько милых фактов?: “до вязания шерстяных носков (любимое занятие Хайдеггера)”
Так как полноценно читать [про] всех этих великих мыслителей у меня толком не выходит, да и двигаться от простого к сложному легче, то мне давно было интересно почитать что-то из таких серий, редкие отзывы не были ужасными. Сартр был выбран как единственный, в ком я хоть что-то понимаю. Может не все личности в этой серии так отвратно разобраны, может хорошие отзывы были на другую подобную серию, но желание отбило. Лучше б Рассела почитать и не выпендриваться.
“Ванда была наполовину русской, имела длинные белые волосы и анархические настроения (читала Спинозу, бегала босиком по снегу и т.д.).”
Бегаешь босиком? Чёртов русский анархист!
Одна звезда, потому что всё-таки было несколько милых фактов?: “до вязания шерстяных носков (любимое занятие Хайдеггера)”
June 27, 2021
Although I’m thankful for a 90-minute summary, is it enough time to wrap one’s head around Sartre? Is it enough time to understand what Sartre meant when he said, “Man is a useless passion” or “Man is condemned to be free”? One thing he said that doesn’t take more than 90 minutes—or even 9 seconds—to understand and fully appreciate: “Hell is other people.”
November 4, 2018
I found these “philosophers in 90 minutes” audiobooks at my library and thought “why not do a quick review?” (Not that I remember a thing from my classes.) This one is by far the most superior, so far. Not because Sartre was any great philosopher (on the contrary) but because the author takes you on a semi-comic/cynical tour of his thought. And that, my friends is so refreshing when listening to these philosophers (and how great they think their ideas are.)
September 10, 2019
Before reading Sartre in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern, I recognized the name and associated it with philosophy and that was about it. I've been reading other books about the great philosophers in this ...in 90 Minutes series and it was only a matter of time before I got to this one and learned Sartre's connection to existentialism. It gave the usual general overview of his life and explained his ideas in the field of philosophy so I could gain a basic understanding about him. One passage from the book has Sartre clarifying existentialism stating that "The first effect of existentialism is that it puts every man in possession of himself as he is, and places the entire responsibility for his existence upon his own shoulders." I can see where this wouldn't be a popular philosophy among certain groups of people, for example, those who refuse to take responsibility for themselves and prefer to be taken care of by someone else, like the government. I did sense that the author, of whom I have read some other books, was not particularly fond of Sartre's ideas but I took it as another insight into competing ideas in the field of philosophy and peoples' philosophical preferences. If you've read other books in this series, this one will continue your journey.
February 1, 2020
Currently reading another (fairly lengthy) book on Sartre, which comes in handy in comparison with this book which attempts to summarize a philosopher's work and life in an hour (give or take).
At the risk of stating the obvious, an hour is nowhere near enough to discuss one's life, much more his philosophy, much more one of Sartre's stature, but the author makes an applauded effort at highlighting those key moments and key ideas in Sartre's life and his brand of Existentialism.
Looking forward to reading more of his work.
At the risk of stating the obvious, an hour is nowhere near enough to discuss one's life, much more his philosophy, much more one of Sartre's stature, but the author makes an applauded effort at highlighting those key moments and key ideas in Sartre's life and his brand of Existentialism.
Looking forward to reading more of his work.
May 8, 2022
These Philosophy in an hour books are disappointing. Based on the title you would imagine it is suitable for someone who may have no prior knowledge on the topic, sort of an introduction since it is only one hour, but its not really suitable. You need to have a base level of knowledge higher than the average person otherwise most of the information is out of context. I'm sure these are great for students of philosophy but for someone with a new interest in Philosophy I don't recommend it.
May 6, 2025
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Let the reign of divine
Truth, Life, and Love
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August 17, 2018
I was expecting an introductory summary or Sartre's life and ideas... what I found was, yes I have an idea now of Sartre's life but mostly an idea of the dislike of the author about Sartre's ideas and philosophy. It felt more like a critic than an informative piece.
September 28, 2008
Liked it, but I felt that it had a negative point of view. The author came off as a right of center critic rather than an objective purveyor of Sartre's ideas.
April 5, 2010
Excellent. quick and easy to understand. clear and concise.
May 31, 2022
Unintentionally hilarious. Or maybe intentionally; I can't be sure. Wait, that's Camus. Never mind.
April 19, 2016
حظ بردم.
June 27, 2025
Sartre in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern – from the series Philosophers in 90 Minutes – about ten of the splendid books of Paul Strathern are reviewed on my blog – and here is the plug: along with hundreds of other books and films, the best gig there is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...
8 out of 10
Paul Strathern has written an impressive collection of books on luminaries, philosophers, writers https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... and they are an excellent read
- Great works are better read, a summary is not optimal
Nevertheless, if we do not get to the luminaries themselves, perhaps we are unable to comprehend Kant, Hegel, or indeed, any of the inaccessible ones, then we have the option to get the explained, short version…
In my view, Jean Paul Sartre was no Socrates https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... worse, as he has defended communism, he is persona non grata for the under signed
- ‘Sartre believed that violence was a justifiable means to the great end of Communism; Camus vigorously disagreed.’
Ergo Sartre is a creep
Many will disagree with that, but to keep praising the soviets, even after it became clear what they were about is disgusting, and this is personal, biased, I have to admit it, but I had to live under Ceausescu and there it is
At the end of the note, there will be my standard lines, in which I also refer to the most important contribution I have had, to participate in the revolution that brought Ceausescu down, and ended tyranny
We still see the effects of that horrible regime, we are behind the West in so many ways, and that is because the Russians have brought calamity here, communists had no appeal in this land, there were very few
I am not sure if Simone de Beauvoir https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... the lover of Jean Paul Sartre was also a communist, but her book was enjoyable, at least
- The first part
However, Jean Paul Sartre has this terrible association and albeit nobody is perfect and we find that the great minds had abominable attitudes, some secretes were awful, still, supporting the mass killers, Stalin and company is anathema
Intelelctuals by Paul Johnson is a marvelous work, which gives you insight into the lives of Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Jacques Rousseau – the latter has abandoned his children at a time when nine of ten would die
https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... Jean Paul Sartre is part of that line for me, without having the attenuating circumstances of being on the level of Leo Tolstoy, or Henrik Ibsen
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
8 out of 10
Paul Strathern has written an impressive collection of books on luminaries, philosophers, writers https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... and they are an excellent read
- Great works are better read, a summary is not optimal
Nevertheless, if we do not get to the luminaries themselves, perhaps we are unable to comprehend Kant, Hegel, or indeed, any of the inaccessible ones, then we have the option to get the explained, short version…
In my view, Jean Paul Sartre was no Socrates https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... worse, as he has defended communism, he is persona non grata for the under signed
- ‘Sartre believed that violence was a justifiable means to the great end of Communism; Camus vigorously disagreed.’
Ergo Sartre is a creep
Many will disagree with that, but to keep praising the soviets, even after it became clear what they were about is disgusting, and this is personal, biased, I have to admit it, but I had to live under Ceausescu and there it is
At the end of the note, there will be my standard lines, in which I also refer to the most important contribution I have had, to participate in the revolution that brought Ceausescu down, and ended tyranny
We still see the effects of that horrible regime, we are behind the West in so many ways, and that is because the Russians have brought calamity here, communists had no appeal in this land, there were very few
I am not sure if Simone de Beauvoir https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... the lover of Jean Paul Sartre was also a communist, but her book was enjoyable, at least
- The first part
However, Jean Paul Sartre has this terrible association and albeit nobody is perfect and we find that the great minds had abominable attitudes, some secretes were awful, still, supporting the mass killers, Stalin and company is anathema
Intelelctuals by Paul Johnson is a marvelous work, which gives you insight into the lives of Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Jacques Rousseau – the latter has abandoned his children at a time when nine of ten would die
https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... Jean Paul Sartre is part of that line for me, without having the attenuating circumstances of being on the level of Leo Tolstoy, or Henrik Ibsen
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
October 17, 2023
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher who lived during the 20th century with a major impact on thinking. He was a leading front figure in existentialism. The philosopher had a big appetite for women and beer, but most for reading, knowledge, and books. He read everything with a great variety of genres. For some time he only read, explained, and studied.
According to Sartre, we should be aware of what we do and take full responsibility for it. Everyone's aim should be to increase their consciousness, become more self-aware, and take responsibility for predicaments. Consciousness creates itself through its choices. You decide yourself and your actions will create your life. You have the liberal right to change your day-to-day life every living moment. He was for freedom for the individual, which is a vital part of existentialism.
His most notable works included Nausea (1938), Being and Nothingness (1943), and Existentialism and Humanism (1946).
Sartre was left on the political compass and sympathized with communists to a certain extent, but at the same time did not see himself as a Marxist and never joined a political party because that would have decreased his liberty. He saw the WW2 as his own fault.
According to Sartre, we should be aware of what we do and take full responsibility for it. Everyone's aim should be to increase their consciousness, become more self-aware, and take responsibility for predicaments. Consciousness creates itself through its choices. You decide yourself and your actions will create your life. You have the liberal right to change your day-to-day life every living moment. He was for freedom for the individual, which is a vital part of existentialism.
His most notable works included Nausea (1938), Being and Nothingness (1943), and Existentialism and Humanism (1946).
Sartre was left on the political compass and sympathized with communists to a certain extent, but at the same time did not see himself as a Marxist and never joined a political party because that would have decreased his liberty. He saw the WW2 as his own fault.
July 31, 2021
The more I read about Sartre (and his partner Simone de Beauvoir, who held very similar views), the less impressed I am. Apparently, he believed in contra-causal free will (which entails a rejection of determinism) and on that assumption, he grounded his philosophy of freedom. He believed that a human being has the freedom to act in a manner uninfluenced by external events. (For discussion on why free will may be conceived in a manner compatible with determinism, see Daniel Dennett's excellent Freedom Evolves.)
He proudly and adamantly rejected bourgeois values, as evinced in his support for use of violence to further political causes* and endorsement of pedophilia.
*Albert Camus, another existentialist, disagreed with him vehemently on this. Their insightful exchanges can be read in At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails.
He proudly and adamantly rejected bourgeois values, as evinced in his support for use of violence to further political causes* and endorsement of pedophilia.
*Albert Camus, another existentialist, disagreed with him vehemently on this. Their insightful exchanges can be read in At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails.
May 11, 2021
Quick and easy to read overview of Jean-Paul Sartre. For such a short book, it touches on quite a lot of his life and writings. Naturally, there is a lot left out but I would definitely recommend it to anyone who just wants a quick introduction to Sartre. If you are reading any of his book, it might be nice to give this a read to contextualize them a bit more. It also is a great survey of his work so if you just want to see what he has to off before jump into a longer book, this is a great option.
The end of the book also contains a couple of timelines that might be helpful. If you aren’t familiar with much western philosophy I’d actually recommend reading the philosophy timeline before reading the rest of the book. This particular-in 90 minutes book is free for audible subscribers. It’s read by Charlton Heston, who I though did a fantastic job. He reminds me of Richard Mathews, who I am definitely enjoy. Highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Sartre, existentialism, or philosophy around the time of WW2.
The end of the book also contains a couple of timelines that might be helpful. If you aren’t familiar with much western philosophy I’d actually recommend reading the philosophy timeline before reading the rest of the book. This particular-in 90 minutes book is free for audible subscribers. It’s read by Charlton Heston, who I though did a fantastic job. He reminds me of Richard Mathews, who I am definitely enjoy. Highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Sartre, existentialism, or philosophy around the time of WW2.
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