Sartre is surely one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. His "philosophy of existence" influenced not just academic debate but the whole of Western civilization, especially European youth. In France, from the end of WW2 on into the 1960s, a certain "youth culture" milieu composed of secondary school and university students and young artists and intellectuals proclaimed their "existential" attitude to life by wearing the black clothes...
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