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May 20, 2023

Condemned to Freedom, Sartre Sought Existential Rescue

Claudio Tognonato Il Manifesto Global

For existentialism, the choice for oneself is the choice for a world, for commitment to a plural world. Returning to Sartre today means not accepting the distracted somnambulism of our societies, because we have only one life and only one planet.

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September 29, 2016

Sartre and the Birth of Radical Existentialism

Ray Monk The New Statesman

A granular review of three recent books on the the political and intellectual legacy of French Marxian existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. As the reviewer notes, if you want to know why 50,000 people showed up to pay their respects at the writer/activist's 1980 funeral, these new books may provide the answer.

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