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Alfred Betschart has claimed that the project of existential Marxism is a contradiction in terms, but this argument, even when supported by many experts and quotes from Sartre's 1975 interview, [...]

It might seem to be the most natural experience in the world to speak and write and to learn that you're being listened to, but for me it's almost dizzying [...]

Abstract: It might seem that Sartre's thought is no longer relevant in understanding and combating the maelstrom unleashed by triumphant neoliberalism. But we can still draw inspiration from Sartre's hatred [...]

Not believing in God is, on the one hand, a very simple matter. As most Danes and Swedes know, it is increasingly possible to grow up in a wholly secular [...]

ABSTRACT: When published, Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason appeared to be a major intellectual and political event, no less than a Kantian effort to found Marxism, with far-reaching theoretical and [...]

By what incredible foresight did the most significant intellectual quarrel of the twentieth century anticipate the major issue of the twenty-first? When Camus and Sartre parted ways in 1952, the [...]

For over fifty years Francis Jeanson has been one of the world's exemplary radical thinkers and actors. We Sartreans know him as the author of one of the earliest, and [...]

In October and November, 1948, an exchange on democracy between Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus appeared in Jean Daniel's monthly Caliban. Except for comments made six months apart in different [...]

Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre were great friends and philosophical confidantes directly following World War II, but the ideology of communism separated the philosophers during the Cold War. Camus rejected violence of any kind, and did not support communism, while Sartre believed that violence was a necessary evil and that communism should overthrow the ties of colonialism.

Jean-Paul Sartre died in 1980. The Soviet empire collapsed in 1989, then the Soviet Union itself. Sweeping post-Cold War reappraisals began to appear, many of them focusing on or emanating [...]