Timeline Monday 29 October 1945

Events on Monday 29 October 1945 1

• 1945 "Existentialism Is a Humanism" Lecture Popularizing existentialism to the public On 29 October 1945, Sartre delivered his famous public lecture "L'existentialisme est un humanisme" in Paris, defending existentialism against charges of nihilism and despair. The lecture, later published as a short book, became the most widely read introduction to his philosophy and brought existentialism to a broad popular audience beyond academic circles. It cemented Sartre's status as a public intellectual celebrity in postwar France.