Word: existentialists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than the name of a jittery Paris fad; it is a description of any philosophy that takes as its starting point the elementary fact of human existence. The word, and the Catholic Church's wish to assist Thomism's prior claim to it, had brought 13th Century Existentialist Aquinas and 20th Century Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre together. The whole room rustled when white-maned Philosopher Jacques Maritain stood up to speak...
...Simone Beauvoir, noted French novelist and playwright and a leader in the Existentialist Movement, will lecture in French on "La Responsibilite de l'Ecrivain" this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Modern Language Center. Mme. Beauvoir's talk will be open to the public, and is presented under the auspices of the Department of Romance Languages...
...this pamphlet, Novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, the leader of the French Existentialist movement, vigorously, often brilliantly, drags a shady topic into the light. He occasionally pushes a sound idea to a silly extreme, e.g.: readers are likely to feel that Author Sartre hits the nail square on the head when he says that the anti-Semite is normally a petty bourgeois who takes "passionate pride" in being "an average man . . . a mediocre person." But they will balk when Sartre goes on to say that "there is no example of an anti-Semite claiming individual superiority over the Jews," or that...
...Oxford lecture, delivered by a French Existentialist named Jean Bacon, a young woman became confused about problems of "being and nothingness" and asked the lecturer where babies came from. Said M. Bacon with Gallic urbanity: "De ses parents, évidemment!" (From their parents, naturally). Oxford's weekly Isis discussed the lecture under the coy title "Sartre Resartus...
...Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, whose play, The Respectful Prostitute* was attacked in Paris as anti-American, protested with a reasonableness so sweet that it seemed oldfashioned. He just did not understand, said he, what anti-American meant. "One finds [in the U.S.] ways . . . which are excellent," he hummed, "and some which are not so good." (M. Sartre's No Exit was to open on Broadway this week...