Sartre further develops this idea through his account of radical freedom, in which he claims that individuals are “condemned ...

At his third and final lecture of the year, Boston University professor Elie Wiesel focused on questions of worth he faced after his recent experience with open-heart surgery. Elie Wiesel greets ...

Jean-Paul Sartre, a very short, very cheerful Parisian, lectured at the Carnegie Chamber Music Hall last week without provoking a riot or a single refined cry of “Salaud! ” or “Fumiste!,” the latter, ...

The literary lion of Paris bounced into Manhattan last week for a brief lecture tour (stops at Yale, Harvard, Princeton). He put up at a genteel midtown hotel—partly because he could find no other ...

BERKELEY — Baxter Wood is one of Hubert Dreyfus’ most devoted students. During lectures on existentialism, Wood hangs on every word, savoring the moments when the 78-year-old philosophy professor ...

A stick figure of a man being hung by his neck with a string is drawn on the board as students enter the classroom. “Goodbye Class,” the message reads. Though it may have been the actual last day of ...