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Between Existentialism and Marxism (Radical Thinkers) by Jean-Paul Sartre; John Matthews is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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A classic work by the founding father of existentialism, describing his philosophy and its relationship to Marxism. This book presents a full decade of Sartre’s work, from the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960, the basic philosophical turning-point in his postwar development, to the inception of his major study on Flaubert, the first volumes of which appeared in 1971. The essays and interviews collected here form a vivid panorama of the range and unity of Sartre’s interests, since his deliberate attempt to wed his original existentialism to a rethought Marxism. A long and brilliant autobiographical interview, given to New Left Review in 1969, constitutes the best single overview of Sartre’s whole intellectual evolution. Three analytic texts on the US war in Vietnam, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the lessons of the May Revolt in France, define his political positions as a revolutionary socialist. Questions of philosophy and aesthetics are explored in essays on Kierkegaard, Mallarme and Tintoretto. Another section of the collection explores Sartre’s critical attitude to orthodox psychoanalysis as a therapy, and is accompanied by rejoinders fro

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Jean-Paul Sartre; John Matthews
Publisher
Verso Books
Published
2008
Language
EN
ISBN
9781844672073
Category
philosophy
Subjects
Fiction, Philosophy, Humanities
Rating
3.82 / 5 (87 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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