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The Age of Reason

Jean-Paul Sartre

  • 320 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1947
  • 12 editions
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1 About this book

The Age of Reason (French: L'âge de raison) is a 1945 novel by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. It is the first part of the trilogy The Roads to Freedom.

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  • Paris (france)
  • World War II
  • Sartre existentialism

2 About Jean-Paul Sartre

1905–1980

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, US also ; French:; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, political activist, and writer, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology) and was a proponent of Libertarian Marxism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies.

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