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 po.
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.
Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century