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 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...
Freud on Dreams and Responsibility
Freud links together responsibility with dreams and says that we must hold ourselves responsible for our dreams, for...
Sartre on Anguish: “We Are Anguish”
Sartre defines consciousness as nothingness and nothingness as freedom. It is in this togetherness of consciousness and freedom...
Why Did Sartre Refuse the Freudian Unconscious?
The unconscious, for Sartre, means that there is a part of ourselves that is absent, radically foreign, and...