/lit/ - Literature

HE WAS NOT EVEN A PHILOSOPHER: HE WAS A SOPHIST, NOT WORTHY OF BEING LISTENED TO, MUCH LESS OF BEING READ.

No

I enjoyed "No Exit" and "The Age of Reason," mostly for literary reasons than philosophy, but his actual philosophical text I never could get into, personally.

>>23331981
he can look at two philosophy books at once, so yes.

>>23332026
*could* my mistake, sorry.

>>23332026
Shut the fuck up Carlos you stupid faggot

>>23331981
Yes

>>23331981
If you want to understand postmodernism read Foucault and Derrida.
Don’t read anyone else because the more you fill your head with that bullshit the more that you will have to scrub it out later

>>23331981
If you want to understand existentialism from an historical perspective, then yes, but I never really liked him. He's depressing and goes out of his way to be an edge lord. Camus blows his shit out of the water.
Nausea is so fucking boring. He has one other obscure book that's short and I didn't mind it as much. Gotta track down the title

>>23332078
Existentialism is a Humanism. If you can find that it's short and not bad.

>>23331981
he has a philosophical power level of like 100

I'm learning French but I don't have any interest in philosophy
Are his novels still worth reading? How difficult are they compared to say, Camus or Houellebecq?

>>23332094
I would say Sartre is on average slightly harder than Houellebecq. Camus has very different writing styles d'un livre à l'autre so it depends. All Sartre is harder than L'Etranger for sure, about as hard as La Peste or La Chute I would say.

>>23332094
La Nausée and Le Mure are fine, Les Mots on the other hand is atrocious. I would recommend his plays, Les Mains sales, Huis-clos and Le Diable et le bon Dieu which are quite funny and interesting.

He's kinda forgotten in academia nowadays. Being and nothingness is pure pain but you can read la transcendance de l'ego if you want diet Sartre

>>23331981
Everyone on this board has taken shits that are more aesthetically pleasing than that man's face. He's so ugly it's like it's a disability.

>>23332068
The Postmodern Condition is also worth reading

>>23332026
kek

>>23331981
No, he was too dumb to understand his teacher, Heidegger. Heidegger correctly identified Sartre's work as another naive form of metaphysics. Third rate philosopher.

>>23331981
no
unless you're attracted to despair, meaninglessness and nihilism

>>23331981
only if you're a postmodernism pilled existentialism maxxer

>Hell is being Sartre