This article argues that although Jean-Paul Sartre is widely acknowledged as an atheist, a closer look at his phenomenological ontology in Being and Nothingness (1943) demonstrates a more complicated picture. I explicate three concepts of God at
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Alfred Betschart
fall 2018, Ron Aronson published a remarkable essay with the title: “The Philosophy of Our Time,” 1 in which he praises Jean-Paul Sartre's existential Marxism as a possible “philosophical foundation for today's revitalized critiques of capitalism
From Jean-Paul Sartre to Critical Existentialism
Notes for an Existentialist Ethical Theory
Maria Russo
The aim of this article is to sketch an existentialist ethical theory based on a Kantian interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre's ethics of authenticity. Between 1947 and 1948, Sartre wrote several notebooks on the possibility of developing an
Sartre and Camus
In/Justice and Freedom in the Algerian Context
Ouarda Larbi Youcef
justice.”-Albert Camus “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”-Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus met for the first time in June 1943 in Paris. Their friendship lasted almost a decade, more precisely, until 1952, though not
Mary Edwards
The central aim of this paper is to show that Jean-Paul Sartre's mature work represents a fecund source for contemporary feminist debate concerning the role of the imagination in women's psychological oppression. Before beginning, though, the
David Schweikart
Ever since Marx, philosophy must lead to action. Otherwise it is irrelevant …. Philosophers must be angry, and, in this world, stay angry. Jean-Paul Sartre (1972) 1 I. The Quarrel On June 30, 1952 Albert Camus sent a seventeen-page letter to the
Sartre, Lacan, and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis
A Defense of Lacanian Responsibility
Blake Scott
period—from the Frankfurt school in Germany to Sartre and his successors in France—one can see how any significant overhaul to Freudian theory, such as Jacques Lacan’s proclaimed “return to Freud,” might also be of concern to contemporary philosophical
Esther Demoulin
« On parle dans sa propre langue, on écrit dans une langue étrangère », 1 nous dit Sartre dans Les Mots . Quelle langue Sartre a-t-il dès lors utilisée pour écrire la parole ? À cette question, Sartre donne une réponse détaillée dans son article
Leshaba Lechaba
Introduction Sartre's commitment to the course of anti-Black racism and oppression made him an ally of Black existential thought and Black liberation struggles in the twentieth century. 1 For this reason, his works are significant insofar as
Jean-Paul Sartre and Ronald Aronson
In early 1945, with the war not yet over, Sartre travelled to the United States for the first time. He travelled with a group of correspondents who were invited in order to influence French public opinion favourably towards the United States.1 Sartre was sent by his friend Albert Camus to report back to Combat, the leading newspaper of the independent left. Once invited, he arranged also to report back to the conservative newspaper, Le Figaro. Simone de Beauvoir reports that learning of Camus’ invitation in late 1944 was one of the most exciting moments of Sartre’s life.