二戰之後，德國哲學喺法國引發咗一股研究嘅熱潮。原因主要有兩個方面，其中一個係法國共產黨喺法蘭西解放運動中所起嘅作用令到法國共產黨喺短期內成為咗法國嘅最大政黨，對共產主義學說嘅翻譯熱情又進一步激發咗對馬克思哲學同黑格爾哲學嘅興趣，喺呢一股思潮嘅影響下，呢兩個人嘅學說第一次開始喺法國大學入面被廣泛研究；第二個原因，另一股主流思潮關注嘅焦點就係現象學家胡塞爾以及佢嘅學生海德格爾嘅學說，喺推動呢股風潮嘅運動入面，薩特扮演咗非常重要嘅角色，佢唔單止係當時知名嘅作家同哲學教師，同時亦係一位非常有影響力嘅公共知識分子，佢將佢自己嘅學說叫做存在主義。
After World War II, German philosophy sparked a research boom in France. There are two main reasons, one is that the role of the Communist Party of France in the French liberation movement made the Communist Party of France the largest party in France in a short period of time, and the enthusiasm for translating communist doctrines further stimulated interest in the philosophy of Marx and Hegel, and under the influence of this current of thought, the doctrines of these two men began to be widely studied in France universities for the first time; second, the other mainstream of thought focused on the theories of the phenomenologist Husserl and his student Heidegger, in which Sartre played a very important role in promoting this movement, not only as a well-known writer and philosophy teacher of the time, but also as a very influential public intellectual, who called his own doctrine existentialism.