Jean Paul Sartre

Why did I choose to write an absurdist novel?

Declan Toohey on how his debut, Perpetual Comedown, came into being

Mon Feb 20 2023 - 05:00

Happening review: Unwanted pregnancy in 1960s France

Audrey Diwan’s award-winning study has the tension of a thriller

Fri Apr 22 2022 - 05:00

A Yamaha 50 isn’t ideal transport when you are in labour

It was the summer of 1981 when my first daughter was born

Thu Mar 17 2022 - 06:02

I of the beholder – Frank McNally on having an existential keyboard crisis

An Irishman’s Diary

Fri Feb 04 2022 - 19:01

Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of Breathless, dies aged 88

French actor, nicknamed Bébel, was one of country’s biggest stars in 1960s and 1970s

Mon Sept 06 2021 - 16:35

Should we cancel Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche?

Unthinkable: Famous philosophers are being reappraised in light of their prejudices

Thu Apr 22 2021 - 05:00

To the atheist Sartre: Thank you for this vivid incarnation of Jesus

French existentialist philosopher wrote nativity play while a prisoner of war

Tue Dec 22 2020 - 06:00

In a Word . . . People

‘Hell is other people’ is a line from the play Huis Clos/No Exit by French philosopher Jean- Paul Sartre

Sat Nov 28 2020 - 00:30

Micheál Martin wants us to have ‘a meaningful Christmas’ – but what does that mean?

Unthinkable: Perhaps existentialism can help us navigate the Taoiseach’s suggestion

Thu Nov 26 2020 - 05:00

John Creedon: The outsiders who left their names in Ireland

The influence of foreigners is still seen across Ireland’s place names today

Sat Oct 31 2020 - 06:00

Ghost of Juliette Gréco lingers over Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Paris Letter: Performer sang of her beloved city, of amour, rebellion and fleeting pleasures

Tue Sept 29 2020 - 20:00

Charlie Hebdo staff uphold ‘fight for liberty’ at trial over massacre

Wounded survivors testify in Paris detailing massacre which killed 12 of their colleagues

Wed Sept 09 2020 - 12:16

Ten philosophers to help us through the coronavirus crisis

Unthinkable: Sartre and Schopenhauer make the list but Peig Sayers deserves inclusion too

Thu May 21 2020 - 05:00

In a Word . . . Misanthrope

Sat May 16 2020 - 00:00

Breda O’Brien: There is something particularly vile about Jean Vanier

In the midst of such darkness, how can one find the light?

Sat Feb 29 2020 - 01:00

There’s no meaning of life. Now, happy Christmas!

Unthinkable: Meaning can be found in everything from a loving relationship to playing chess, says philosopher Jonathan Rowson

Thu Dec 19 2019 - 05:00

September scents: Four grown-up perfumes for the new season

Winning fragrances from Byredo, Timothy Han/Edition, Chanel and Jo Malone

Tue Sept 10 2019 - 06:00

‘We’re fed up with white Parisian men making films about us’

Film-maker Nadir Dendoune is reappropriating the north African immigrant story

Thu Aug 08 2019 - 20:00

Can a novel also be a work of philosophy?

Unthinkable: Literature allows us capture ‘weirdness’ of life, says Matthew McKeever

Thu May 09 2019 - 05:00

Sheila O’Donnell: Architect who has spent a lifetime building connections

Riba’s Woman Architect of the Year prize just the latest big award for Irishwoman

Thu Apr 25 2019 - 06:00

Claude Lanzmann, chronicler of the Holocaust, dies aged 92

Film director most well known for ‘Shoah’ which he spent 12 years making

Fri Jul 06 2018 - 09:59

Chris Johns: Brexit semantics game focuses on meaning of ‘meaningful’

Shift in Brexit deadline or further fudge awaits as hard Brexiteers run clock down

Sun Jun 17 2018 - 12:30

May 1968 and the death of a French revolution

Sorbonne protests 50 years ago ushered in a new era. Today’s students are ‘too busy’ to protest

Sat May 05 2018 - 06:00

Joshua and Parker will see plenty of thinking - and bruising

Joshua: ‘Boxing is not just about knocking people out. It’s healthy living, discipline’

Sat Mar 31 2018 - 06:00

In a word . . . Philosophy

So much of our youth was wasted on slight philosophies offering shallow answers to overwhelming questions

Sat Mar 24 2018 - 00:00

Ruben Östlund: ‘I worry that left-wing people misunderstand Marx’

An encounter with homeless children in Ireland spurred the director to make films that challenge political beliefs

Fri Mar 09 2018 - 05:00

Digital world blatantly ignoring individuals’ rights

WWW has shifted away from opportunities of World Wide Web into the World Wild West

Thu Mar 01 2018 - 04:50

Feel the Burns – An Irishman’s Diary about Scotland’s national poet

Thu Jan 25 2018 - 00:01

Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘contingent’ lovers fight over letters

Long after existentialist philosopher’s death, simmering rivalry links protagonists

Wed Jan 24 2018 - 01:00

Tales from bedsitland: a grubby rite of passage for young Irish

Irish Times readers share their experiences of shared toilets and one-bar electric heaters

Sat Sept 16 2017 - 06:00

Pierre Berge, driving force behind Yves Saint Laurent label, dies at 86

Businessman was one of France’s leading art patrons as well as chief of fashion house

Fri Sept 08 2017 - 16:23

How Charles Baudelaire became France’s first rock star

The poet, who died 150 years ago this week, retains significant influence and allure

Wed Aug 30 2017 - 01:00

Editor who published Julia Child and Anne Frank’s diary

Obituary: Judith Jones, editor, born March 10th, 1924; died August 2nd, 2017

Sat Aug 12 2017 - 01:00

Dear atheists, please stop calling religion a meme

Unthinkable: ‘Catholic agnostic’ Gary Gutting criticises pseudoscientific putdowns of religion

Sun Apr 09 2017 - 08:00