Jean-Paul Sartre
Writer and philosopher
The Sartre and de Beauvoir of Ukraine: how two literary academics became wartime resistance leaders
Husband-and-wife team combine teaching literature with battling cultural extinction and military invasion
So many jobs are a laughable waste of time. The greater part of any job is learning to look busy
We’ve inherited a strange cultural hangover from better times: the idea that the thing you do to survive should also double as your identity and source of pride
Read the headlines and wonder if everyone is on Ozempic and has ADHD? It’s all a bit overwhelming
Unthinkable: If you’re feeling overwhelmed and longing for real meaning, Viktor Frankl may be able to help. And if not, Albert Camus might have the answer
Why did I choose to write an absurdist novel?
Declan Toohey on how his debut, Perpetual Comedown, came into being
Happening review: Unwanted pregnancy in 1960s France
Audrey Diwan’s award-winning study has the tension of a thriller
A Yamaha 50 isn’t ideal transport when you are in labour
It was the summer of 1981 when my first daughter was born
Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of Breathless, dies aged 88
French actor, nicknamed Bébel, was one of country’s biggest stars in 1960s and 1970s
Should we cancel Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche?
Unthinkable: Famous philosophers are being reappraised in light of their prejudices
To the atheist Sartre: Thank you for this vivid incarnation of Jesus
French existentialist philosopher wrote nativity play while a prisoner of war
In a Word . . . People
‘Hell is other people’ is a line from the play Huis Clos/No Exit by French philosopher Jean- Paul Sartre
Micheál Martin wants us to have ‘a meaningful Christmas’ – but what does that mean?
Unthinkable: Perhaps existentialism can help us navigate the Taoiseach’s suggestion
John Creedon: The outsiders who left their names in Ireland
The influence of foreigners is still seen across Ireland’s place names today
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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