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• Why did I decide to do this topic?
o The Beatles held tremendous cultural power. Especially in 1968 where they saw their album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band receive multiple Grammy awards, including the year’s best album. Even further they released The White Album in 1968, which also reached platinum status. Furthermore, they were seen as influential in terms of culture in the late 60s.
o Jean-Paul Sartre was widely influential and widely read during the late 60s with a humanist take on existential philosophy. His philosophical take, that humans can create themselves because we exist before we have an essence, was widely embraced by college students and young people that brought revolution to the streets in the late 1960s.
o My topic, finding common themes and philosophical embraces between the Beatles music in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the White Album and Jean-Paul Sartre’s ideas of humanistic existentialism, comes from a knowledge of these people’s impact on the time, and a curiosity to examine the music of the Beatles in more detail, while looking at it for themes associated with Sartre’s humanistic existentialism.
• What questions am I trying to ask and answer
o Well first and foremost I am trying to answer whether or not there is crossover in themes regarding the Beatles music of 1968 and Sartre’s philosophies.
• If there is, was it intentional on the Beatles part? What do other parts of the song tell me? How do these lyrics intersect with Sartre? Why does it even matter? Does this capture the zeitgeist of the time with its relation to Sartre?
• If not, why not? Did they both lend themselves differently to a similar audience during the late 60s? If not, then who seemed to miss a certain aspect of the time and what exactly was it?
• What sources am I using for this project?
o Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles
o The Beatles (the White Album) by the Beatles
o The Wake of Imagination by Richard Kearney
o Existentialism is Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre -
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