Writing and Intellectual Formation in a Godless World: The Words of Jean-Paul Sartre

Authors

  • Marcelo de Sant'Anna Alves Primo professor colaborador do Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Keywords:

Sartre, Atheism, Literature, Writing

Abstract

Sartre published in 1964 Les Mots,his autobiography in which recalls and examines the whole course of his intellectual development, reflecting on the importance and possibilities of writing and about the writer's situation, reporting how did your passion for reading and writing, watching both as inescapable destiny of every intellectual.On the subject of this study, the proportion of their appreciation to the words, Sartre, when repudiated the values of maternal middle class and has set itself the idea of being a writer, said his atheism and found his refuge in the territory word writing, designing literature as their own emancipation.

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Published

2019-06-03

How to Cite

DE SANT'ANNA ALVES PRIMO, Marcelo. Writing and Intellectual Formation in a Godless World: The Words of Jean-Paul Sartre. Outramargem: revista de Filosofia, Belo Horizonte, Brasil, v. 2, n. 2, p. 80–92, 2019. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/outramargem/article/view/65542. Acesso em: 23 jul. 2026.