What is Literature?

Synopsis

Jean-paul sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century. 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. 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 post-war thought and literature.