Philosophy professor and avid surfer Aaron James brings his two passions together in his new book, drawing connections between the surfer's state... Jason Heller is a Hugo Award-winning editor and ...

Radiating contempt for its bourgeois liberal conformity, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) looms in the corner of this project like a genius with the evil eye. In my view, Sartre is a devil’s advocate to ...

Few things about France strike foreigners as so endearingly strange as the country's enduring love affair with philosophy. France is the country whose Revolution was driven by Enlightenment philosophy ...

What is an emotion? In his Sketches for a Theory of the Emotions (1939), Sartre picks up what William James, Martin Heidegger and others had written about this question to suggest what he believed to ...

Nearly forty years after his death in 1980, the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre is best remembered as the father of existentialism. We are most familiar with him as the theorist of freedom, ...

In this hilarious satire Sartre takes aim at the French bourgeois press, pokes fun at Beckett, Camus and especially his own philosophy. He creates a fictitious swindler Georges de Valera who assumes ...

Existence precedes essence, as our friend Jean-Paul Sartre used to say. That idea comes from a long history of very theoretical philosophical thought. But in real life, it's the idea that there is no ...

AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFÉ: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simon de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Karl Jaspers, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and ...