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The Age of Reason by Sartre

Posted by Elnast on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 in ,

Series: The Roads to Freedom
I The Age of Reason, 1947
II The Reprieve, 1947
III Troubled Sleep, 1951

Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris in 1905. He graduated from I'Ecole Normale superieure in 1929 with a doctorate in philosophy. He taught in Paris before and after in prison for nine months during 1940. He is one of the leading figures in modern philosophy and major contributors to Existentialism.

In 1964 Sartre declined the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1980.

This is one of those books that cover everything. It's heavy, but not in a depressed way. The heaviness will make you thinking deeply. There is SO much here about the decisions we have to make in life, and whether or not we can actually be said to make them ourselves.

What is to reflect on my life of failure and declares that I have indeed reached the age of reason?














"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."
---Sartre

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Coincidence!

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1 Comments

Brandi says:
December 16, 2009 at 2:10 PM

I'll definitely have to check this out. I remember reading Satre's No Exit in college -- fascinating play. He always had so much to say and found such interesting ways to do that.

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