Sartre

American  

[sahr-truh, sahrt, sar-tr^uh] / ˈsɑr trə, sɑrt, ˈsar trə /

noun

1. Jean-Paul 1905–80, French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist: declined 1964 Nobel Prize in literature.

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Sartre British  

/ sartrə /

noun

1. Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pɔl). 1905–80, French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist; chief French exponent of atheistic existentialism. His works include the philosophical essay Being and Nothingness (1943), the novels Nausea (1938) and Les Chemins de la liberté (1945–49), a trilogy, and the plays Les Mouches (1943), Huis clos (1944), and Les Mains sales (1948)

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Example Sentences

“A gap year,” it was called, as if the Celtics were going to bolt off to a drafty Paris flat and pretend to read Sartre.

From The Wall Street Journal

Of this lineup of serial offenders, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty had prior convictions, mostly for communism, and only Barthes had a sense of humor.

From The Wall Street Journal

To understand why, consider French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1944 work “Anti-Semite and Jew.”

From Salon

Throughout the novel, Rhys references Kant, De Beauvoir, Sartre, Virginia Woolf and Epictetus, among others, using knowledge as a balm and escape hatch.

From Los Angeles Times

I was thinking about relationships between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir and this kind of the dynamic between an intellectual couple of a certain era.

From Los Angeles Times