When Sartre and Camus worked together on "Combat" after the liberation of France, they would drink and joke together as good friends do. They had great mutual admiration, but from the beginning their ...

Andy Martin reminds us of that in his entertaining survey of two new books about the existentialist philosophers, At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell and The Existentialist Moment by Patrick ...

What is a famous man? Albert Camus wrote in his diary in 1946 that it was "someone whose first name doesn't matter." That certainly applies to Camus, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday on ...

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They were an odd pair. Albert Camus was French Algerian, a pied-noir born into poverty who effortlessly charmed with his Bogart-esque features. Jean-Paul Sartre, from the upper reaches of French ...

It didn’t take much to get your own FBI file back in the days of J. Edgar Hoover; harboring novel ideas on the nature of human existence would suffice. That’s according to a new piece in the British ...

Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, two of the most important minds of the 20th century, were closely entwined throughout their careers. On the centenary of Camus' birth, SPIEGEL looks back at their ...

“We Have Only This Life to Live: Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre 1939-1975” by Jean-Paul Sartre, edited by Ronald Aronson and Adrian Van Den Hoven (New York Review Books, 576 pages, $22.95) ...