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In his quest for an ethics, Sartre went from a universalism of a Kantian type (
Au terme d’une période, l’entre-deux-guerres, marquée par le rapprochement entre le roman et le journalisme, Sartre propose dans
This article examines the main references to the Death of God in Sartre’s work (in ‘Un nouveau mystique’,
Atheism is at the heart of Sartre’s philosophy but also of his reflections on writing and the choice of the imaginary. Nonetheless, atheism for him is not a matter of an acquired and self-assured spiritual option. It is a struggle against the temptation of faith, a struggle which is nothing else than the aspiration to Being, to a justified existence, to the surpassing of contingency. This is why Sartre can qualify atheism as ‘cruel’. To be victorious against the illusions of necessity, against the confusion of literature and religion, atheism is a never-ending process of liquidation of the very idea of ‘Salvation’.
« On parle dans sa propre langue, on écrit dans une langue étrangère », nous dit Sartre dans
Through an analysis of the category of alienation in the
Dans cet article, nous explorons le concept de
This article extrapolates a theory of memory as an intentional consciousness from Sartre’s early, scattered references to memory. There are three key questions: How does Sartre conceive of memory’s intentional structure? Its temporal structure? And how does memory display both continuity and discontinuity in the stream of consciousness? Starting from the Sartrean insight that memory is a ‘double consciousness’ the article offers an analysis of how memory helps to constitute a temporally complex mode of being-in-the-world. Aside from memory’s usefulness in this regard, memory also has the power to disturb consciousness and disrupt its projects. Roland Barthes’s concept of the