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Jean Paul Sartre's Views of Perception

Before beginning a discussion of Jean Paul Sartre's views on the importance of different types of perception  the focus of this paper  it will be useful to lay a groundwork that covers the basic overall philosophy of this great French thinker, dramatist, novelist, and political journalist, for his writings about perception are not in any way ancillary to his major philosophical contributions but lie at the core of his theoretical and political positions.

Sartre, who was born in Paris, June 21, 1905, and educated at the +c(le Normale SupTrieure in Paris, the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, and the French Institute in Berlin, taught philosophy at various lycTes (essentially analogous to American high schools) from 1929 until the outbreak of World War II, when he was called into military service. In 1940-41 he was imprisoned by the Germans; after his release, he taught in Neuilly, France, and later in Paris, and was active in the French Resistance.

The German authorities, unaware of his underground activities, permitted the production of his antiauthoritarian play The Flies in 1943 and the publication of his major philosophical work Being and Nothingness that same year. His experiences during the war deeply influenced his writings and thinking until he died, in 1980.

Sartre gave up teaching in 1945 and founded the political and literary magazine Les Temps Modernes, of which he became editor in chief. Sartre was active after 1947 as an independent socialist, critical of both the USSR and the United States during the Cold War. Later, he supported Soviet positions but still frequently criticized Soviet policies. Most of his writing of the 1950s deals with literary and political problems. Sartre rejected the 1964 Nobel Prize in literature, explaining that to accept such an award would compromise his integrity as a writer. Sartre's philosophic works combine the phenomenology of the German philosopher Edmund Husser...

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