What is Literature?
What is Literature? Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century. The central tenet of the Existentialist movement which he helped to…
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What is Literature?
Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century. The central tenet of the Existentialist movement which he helped to found, whereby God is replaced by an ethical self, proved hugely attractive to a generation that had seen the horrors of Nazism, and provoked a revolution in post-war thought and literature. His writings had a potency that was irresistible to the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inheritance to contemporary thought.
Sartre the novelist and Sartre the philosopher combine to address the phenomenon of literature, exploring why we read, and why we write. In What is Literature?