In Being and Nothingness, Sartre says that “man is a useless passion”: An acknowledgment of the human condition...
Explaining Sartre’s “Transcendence-Transcended”
In Sartre’s existentialism, “transcendence-transcended” is a mode of being. The human being is a transcendence, an entity that...
Foucault on the History of Governmentality
Foucault introduces the term ‘governmentality’ in Security, Territory, Population, and The Birth of Biopolitics at the Collège de...
Heidegger: Possibilities and Ways of Freedom
Heidegger constantly thinks toward toward freedom. Freedom is questioned, approached, and investigated everywhere in his writings and lectures.
Sartre and Marxism: The Problem of Freedom
Sartre, in his later work, attempts to bring his version of existentialism together with Marxism. This attempt is...
De Beauvoir on Bad Faith: Against Sartre?
Investigating and questioning the possibilities and limits of bad faith lie at the heart of the existential thinking-philosophizing...
Sartre’s Atheism: Philosophical and Personal
Sartre’s atheism is radical; it is philosophical and personal, ontological and subjective, phenomenological and poetic; it is the...
Simone de Beauvoir on Woman as Other
The entire existential thinking-philosophizing of de Beauvoir arises from, revolves around, critiques, and argues against the problem of...
Sartre: Committed Writing and Changing the World
For Sartre, committed writing aims at changing the world by disclosing it and by asking and investigating the...
Sartre’s Denial of Human Nature
The existentialism of Sartre arises from the conviction that there is no human nature. “Existence precedes essence” conveys...
Sartre on Authenticity: Acknowledging Freedom
In the ethical-existential thinking-philosophizing of Sartre, authenticity is offered not as a mere value, but rather as a...
Simone de Beauvoir on Freedom and the Situation
The situation of children is where Simone de Beauvoir begins her discussion and analysis of freedom and the...
Sartre on Abandonment
According to Sartre, abandonment does not mean that we are forgotten about or left behind by a certain...
Simone de Beauvoir and Existentialism
The thinking-philosophizing of Simone de Beauvoir is grounded in existentialism, its detours, and attempts; it takes existentialism as...
Sartre on Existentialism in Existentialism Is a Humanism
In Existentialism Is a Humanism, Sartre introduces the detours of his existentialism by bringing existentialism and humanism together...
Explaining Sartre’s “Hell Is Other People”
Sartre’s “hell is other people” means that it is hell to exist subject to, awaiting, and controlled by...
Sartre on Death in Being and Nothingness
In Being and Nothingness, Sartre criticizes Heidegger’s conception of death in Being and Time and offers his own...
Explaining Sartre’s “Existence Precedes Essence”
“Existence precedes essence” was first mentioned in a public lecture that was later published as Existentialism Is a...
Sartre on Freedom, Condemnation, and the Situation
For Sartre, freedom and responsibility are linked in such a way that places them in a constant relatedness...
Sartre on Anguish: “We Are Anguish”
Sartre defines consciousness as nothingness and nothingness as freedom. It is in this togetherness of consciousness and freedom...