PHL 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Catatonia
12 Jan 2017
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Raised in lutheran household father was a lutheran priest. After all of his reading as a young boy, he decided he could not have faith. Academic life: was first of his time to be a professor at early twenties. Had to fall back because of illness(es) such as migraines, or intestinal thingies. Romantic theory: thought so outside the box that he stopped. Scientific: may have had syphilis it would go to the brain. N. is very critical of judaism and christianity. His sister married the most notorious anti-semites in europe, and. would disown sister for marry a rigid-minded man. Sister took passages out of context and published them under the book. The first half of century was seen as anti-semitic. Walter kaufmann went through original notebooks that sister manipulated and realized what the sister had done, so he had the book republished will to power which properly puts words in context.
