Sartre

we,” with an encomium of revolution as “replacing [our present situation] by a more just society in which human beings can have ...

which your younger brothers are serving without hesitation or remorse have under- taken race murder, you are without a shadow of ...

( 1960 ) laid the groundwork for this second ethics. The dialogical ethics or what he described as “an ethics of the we” consist ...

He assured us: “We shall devote to them a future work” (BN 628 ). The 574 pages ofNotebooksconstitute Sartre’s initial attempt t ...

being-unto-death).^12 One is reminded of Sartre’s famous challenge to the young man facing a far-reaching moral dilemma: “You ar ...

political, etc.); 2 nd, the work always being considered as a gift. The beautiful is a gift above all else. The beautiful is the ...

At the same time, I ask that this freedom recognize my freedom and my ends and that, through this reciprocal recognition, we bri ...

can be undermined by bad faith if the society is rent by divisions of class or caste. “In an alienated society,” he insists, “al ...

Remarks like these abound in the Notebooks. They can be read as ambiguous evidence: first, in support of Sartre’s dismissal of t ...

monadic totality that refers to the self of consciousness by itself [the ipseity just mentioned].”^19 Conversion All this is eff ...

“without an ego.” But let me repeat that this is a problematic concept that Sartre appears to have abandoned in his later years. ...

presaging his abandonment of literature for more direct political involve- ment: “A day comes when the pen is forced to stop, an ...

aesthetics; and ( 14 ) realism, in the name of efficacy (NE 186 ).^23 The list could set the framework for an “amorality” play. ...

Echoing his earlier claims about the important role of “situation” in conceiving a revolutionary philosophy (“Materialism and Re ...

appear in theCritiqueto resolve seemingly intransigent dichotomies, and an increased role for the imagination in ethical and pol ...

Absolute Good, but the emergence of Beauty, and his subsequent commitment to the world of poetry and theater, enables him, as it ...

For a long time we believed in social atomism bequeathed to us by the eighteenth century, and it seemed to us that man was by na ...

from the demands of the real or even offer a way of living amidst the insuperable conflicts of action and opinion that mark the ...

resolution might equally be achieved by taking to heart the message of the third play just mentioned,The Devil and the Good Lord ...

once more. It is a common difficulty for the means–end relationship in both ethics and politics. As Sartre admits: “There is a c ...