Recognition, Mutual, 240 , 268
Recurrence, Eternal, 266
Reflection, Impure, (accessory) 201 – 202
Reflection, Pure, (purifying) 79 n 5 , 201 , 272
Responsibility, Collective, 232 , 236 , 264 n 5 ,
264 , 305 , 354 , 356 n 3
Responsibility, Individual, 34 , 177 , 342
Responsibility, Moral, 296 , 308 , 331
Responsibility, Noetic, 220
Revolutionary People’s Assembly (RDR),
288
Rights and Duties, 315 , 345
Role-playing, 403 ; see alsoPlay-acting
Romanticism, 83 n 12 , 83
“Revolutionary romanticism,” 327 n 14 ;
see also“Spirit of Synthesis”
Rousseau, 233
Rousseauian, 311 , 347
Russell, Bertrand, 369 ; see alsoInternational
War Crimes Tribunal
Sadism, 213 , 275 , 404 n 61 ; see alsoDialectic
of Sadism and Masochism;
Masochism; Violence
“Same, the,” 119 , 311 , 344
Sameness, 311 , 340
Sartre, Jean Paul;
Childhood & Early Life: Born on June 21 ,
1905 in Paris to Jean-Baptiste Sartre,
1 ; and Anne-Marie Schweitzer, 1 ;
father dies of fever, 1 ; importance of
mother, 7 n 22 ; mother moves back to
her parent’s house in Meudon and
then to 1 , rue Le Goff, 1 ; mother
marries Joseph Mancy, 1 , 385 ; and
moves family to La Rochelle, 16 ,
20 – 21 , 58 , 75 ; “Poulou” (childhood
nickname), 3 , 5 – 6 , 327 n 16 ; sexuality,
7 n 19 ; abandons faith, 12 n 30 ; develops
interest in philosophy while reading
essay of Henri Bergson, 12 ; attends
Lyce ́e Henri IV, where he and Paul
Nizan develop a lifelong friendship, 2 ,
14 , 17 , 20 , 22 , 164 , 285 ; thenLyce ́e
Louis-le-Grande,( 1922 - 24 ), 21 – 23 ,
285 ;attends theE ́coleNormale
Supe ́rieure, 2 ; begins a close but
shifting relationship with Raymond
Aron, 2 ; becomes acquainted with
Simone de Beauvoir at the Sorbonne,
2 ; failsAgre ́gationon first try, ( 1928 ),
2 ; passes first on his second try just
ahead of de Beauvoir the following
year; eighteen-month tour of military
service as a meteorologist (completed
in February of 1931 ), 2 ; appointed to
the Lyce ́e in Le Havre ( 1931 ), 2 ;
studies phenomenology during
research fellowship in Berlin
( 1933 – 34 ), 77 ; teaches in Lyce ́es in
Laon ( 1936 ) and in the Parisian
suburb of Neuilly (Fall 1937 ), till his
call to active duty in September 1939 ,
2 ; becomes important French literary
figure with publication ofNausea
( 1938 ), based on his time in
Le Havre, 2.
World War II: Works as a conscript in the
French Army on the Alsatian front
during the “Phoney War,” 7 , 158 ;
captured by German troops; nine
months as a prisoner of war initially in
Nancy and then in Stalag 12 D, Trier,
11 ; in camp writes first theatrical work
titledBariona, fils du tonnerre, 172 ;
reads Heidegger’sSein und Zeitin
April, 1939 , 129 ; released thanks to a
forged certificate of declining health,
returns to Paris from the Stalag
(March, 1941 ), 19 , 359 n 16 ;played a
majorpart in founding the Resistance
group named, “Socialisme et
Liberte ́,” 152 , 232 , 287 ; writes three
major works in 1943 :Being and
Nothingness, 175 ;The Flies, 226 ;No
Exit, 229 , 228 ; writes forCombat,Le
FigaroandLes Lettres franc ̧aisesafter
the Liberation, 231 ; foundedLes
Temps Moderneswith Beauvoir and
others, 11 ; introduced his philosophical
work in a “scandalous” lecture called
“Existentialism is a Humanism”
(March, 1946 ), 160 , 233 , 236 ; writes of
his war experience in his trilogy of
novels titledLes Chemins de la Liberte ́,
4 , 141 , 148 , 154 , 160 , 168 , 236
Post-War Politics: WritesNotebooks for an
Ethics( 1947 - 48 ), 165 ;Dirty Hands432 Index