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French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)

Also known as: J.-P. Sartre, J.P. Sartre, Jacques Guillemin, Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, Sartre, Жан-Поль Сартр

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Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881
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Franz Kafka1883–1924
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Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty1908–1961
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Samuel Beckett1906–1989
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Jean Genet1910–1986
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Martin Heidegger1889–1976
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