Who influenced Jean-Paul Sartre?

Who was Jean-Paul Sartre?

Born in Paris and educated at the École Normale Supérieure, Sartre was drawn to philosophy through Bergson, Husserl and Heidegger and became a leading figure of existentialism and phenomenology. His main philosophical work, Being and Nothingness (1943), sets bad faith, a self-deceiving conformity, against an authentic way of being; Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946) introduced his ideas to a wide audience.

Captured in the Second World War and later released, he wrote plays such as No Exit, co-founded the journal Les Temps modernes and campaigned against French policy in Algeria and the US war in Vietnam. He shared his life in an open relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, he tried to refuse it, saying a writer should not become an institution.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Jean-Paul Sartre?

4 direct influences on this map, earliest first.

• Søren Kierkegaard 1813–1855
• Karl Marx 1818–1883
• Edmund Husserl 1859–1938
• Martin Heidegger 1889–1976

Who did Jean-Paul Sartre influence?

2 thinkers on this map draw directly on Jean-Paul Sartre.

• Simone de Beauvoir 1908–1986
• Frantz Fanon 1925–1961

The line of teachers behind Jean-Paul Sartre

The longest documented line of influence ending at Jean-Paul Sartre runs 26 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

1. Thales of Miletus
2. Anaximenes of Miletus
3. Anaxagoras
4. Socrates
5. Antisthenes
6. Diogenes of Sinope
7. Crates of Thebes
8. Zeno of Citium
9. Seneca
10. Tertullian
11. Augustine of Hippo
12. Anselm of Canterbury
13. Peter Lombard
14. Thomas Aquinas
15. René Descartes
16. Thomas Hobbes
17. Baruch Spinoza
18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
19. Christian Wolff
20. Immanuel Kant
21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
22. F. W. J. Schelling
23. Georg W. F. Hegel
24. Max Stirner
25. Friedrich Nietzsche
26. Martin Heidegger
27. Jean-Paul Sartre

Two steps away from Jean-Paul Sartre

Indirect influences

• Through Søren Kierkegaard: Socrates, Blaise Pascal, Johann Georg Hamann, Georg W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Schlegel, F. W. J. Schelling
• Through Martin Heidegger: Aristotle, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Wilhelm Dilthey, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Scheler
• Through Karl Marx: Democritus, Epicurus, Adam Smith, Ludwig Feuerbach
• Through Edmund Husserl: Bernard Bolzano, Rudolf Hermann Lotze, Franz Brentano, Gottlob Frege

Contemporaries of Jean-Paul Sartre

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Jean-Paul Sartre, with no direct line between them.

• Hannah Arendt 1906–1975
• Emmanuel Levinas 1906–1995
• Theodor W. Adorno 1903–1969
• Karl Popper 1902–1994
• Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908–2009
• W. V. O. Quine 1908–2000
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1908–1961
• Émile Benveniste 1902–1976

Jean-Paul Sartre by the numbers

Direct influences

4

Direct followers

2

Thinkers upstream

114

Thinkers downstream

2

Wikipedia languages

150 — #1 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers

Card rarity

Legendary

Schools and lineages

• Existentialists: Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus

Questions about Jean-Paul Sartre

Who influenced Jean-Paul Sartre?

Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.

Who did Jean-Paul Sartre influence?

Simone de Beauvoir and Frantz Fanon.

When did Jean-Paul Sartre live?

1905–1980. The map files Jean-Paul Sartre under the 20th century.

How rare is the Jean-Paul Sartre card?

Wikipedia carries an article on Jean-Paul Sartre in 150 languages, which makes it a Legendary card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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• Albert Camus 1913–1960
• Max Weber 1864–1920
• Simone de Beauvoir 1908–1986
• Bertrand Russell 1872–1970
• Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951
• Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
• Umberto Eco 1932–2016
• Antonio Gramsci 1891–1937