Quote of the day by Jean-Paul Sartre: One of his best-known plays, Huis-clos (No Exit), has the famous line "L'enfer, c'est les autres", meaning 'Hell is other people'.

The French thinker was a staunch advocate of the idea that human beings are not born with a purpose, but are defined by their ...

Todd, right, with the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he came to regard as something of a surrogate father - Jean-Claude FRANCOLON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Olivier Todd, who has died aged 95, achieved ...

What happens when radical ideas about freedom and responsibility collide with the messy, contradictory realities of human desire? Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir built a philosophy that ...

The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (d. 1980) called it mauvaise foi ['bad faith'], the habit that people have of deceiving themselves into thinking that they do not have the freedom to make choices for ...

In 1938, while sitting in a cafe on the Boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris, Jean-Paul Sartre experienced a pivotal moment of revelation that would shape his philosophical thinking. Reflecting on the ...

In the years since 2016, a peculiar genre of personal essay has emerged: the friendship autopsy. A relationship of ten, ...

COMMENTARY: The roots of the current transgender movement and man-hating feminism can be traced back to the theories of two despairing French philosophers, Simone de Beauvoir and her lover Jean-Paul ...

“Sculpter le Vide” at Museum Cantini marks the first major Alberto Giacometti exhibition in Marseille, drawing inspiration from Jean-Paul Sartre’s view of the artist as a sculptor of emptiness and ...