Sartre

11 Means and ends: political existentialism I nthischapterwe return to the texts that form the common source for the ethical and ...

colonialism, which he regarded as a sordid form of state takeover. The young Sartre harbored a basic egalitarian spirit from his ...

meanness is in the system.”^3 But the responsible individuals are the prey of the existentialist. Secondly, his conception of po ...

had renounced his allegiance to the Party the year before because of its support of the nonaggression pact between Hitler and St ...

“revolution” that was taking place virtually outside his window. But Sartre seems to have remained the detached scholar during h ...

socialist by then, owing in part to the sad socialism of my life as a prisoner that nonetheless was a collective life, a communi ...

had years before come to believe was “class conflict.” Indicative of his own ambivalence in this regard, he refused to join the ...

little use. Though the matter is complex and Sartre’s reflections are often ad hoc and flexible, focused, as they usually were, ...

remains to be seen. But it is already clear that the elements of its conception are germinating in the young conscript’s mind. S ...

Two other publications from this period register this change in Sartre’s political and ethical thought from an individualist eth ...

Sartre concludes the introduction with an irenic gesture toward the Marxists. While insisting that man, despite being totally co ...

And it occurs in his posthumously publishedNotebooks for an Ethics, composed in 1947 – 1948. But it plays its major role inSearc ...

to Marxism will embrace the psychological phenomena in more than a superficial, “ideological” sense. If this path is now opened ...

The problem is his individualist looking/looked-at theory of interper- sonal relations. He has not overcome the limits of analyt ...

he asks whether contemporary writers should offer their services to the Communist Party in order to reach the masses, and respon ...

But the other side of the paradox is that by throwing myself completely into the revolutionary enterprise “I risk having no more ...

Recall that Sartre challenged us with the thought that we might succeed in reconciling this dichotomy “be it only once andin the ...

issue inThe Devil and the Good Lordis the relation between ethics and politics – the Absolute and the (Peasant) Revolution. In i ...

bourgeois heart”^23 were scarcely fashioned to allay the fears of the expanding Iron Curtain and Soviet hegemony. Yet Sartre had ...

(Sitiv: 104 ). Indeed, this is a form of defense that Merleau-Ponty had used in an analogous context in hisHumanism and Terror( ...