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Jean-Paul Sartre was perhaps the 20th century’s most famous thinker - if you can get beyond the verbiage

The thrill of violence was key to Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy, says his latest biographer

7 March 2015

9:00 AM

7 March 2015

9:00 AM

Sartre: A Philosophical Biography Thomas R. Flynn

CUP, pp.436, £30

Thomas R. Flynn has written an avowedly ‘intellectual biography’ of Jean-Paul Sartre, which might seem fitting. Sartre was nothing if not an intellectual — so much so that one struggles to think of him as anything but an intellectual. Albert Camus, Sartre’s great rival for the title of the 20th century’s most famous thinker, was a strong swimmer and a stronger soccer player.

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