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by cyberem78 - written on 22/11/08 (Very useful, 75 readings)
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Jean-Paul Sartre was a philosopher and is known as the founder of French Existentialism. This school of thought, or the existential idea, deals with the whys and hows of human existence and focuses on the sense of confusion that we feel for being sentient beings in an absurd, meaningless world. In so many words! In Sartre's formal lectures and his academic books he meditates on the themes of boredom, the absurd, faith, freedom and nothingness and explains how these relate to the existential mode of thought. In this celebrated and crucial 1938 novel 'Nausea' these themes are woven into the fictional story of Antoine Roquentin, who is the exisitentialist ...
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