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...
Sartre’s Existentialism, Poststructuralism, and the Subject
It is often assumed that existentialism and “poststructuralism” think differently toward the subject and its place in thought...
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...
Phenomenology; Briefly Explained
Phenomenology is a radical and anti-traditional way of philosophizing. That it is a way of doing philosophy indicates...
Existentialism and Sexual Difference: Sexism and Failures
A critique that is often directed toward existentialism is that it ignores sexual difference either by leaving it...
Sartre on Consciousness: “There Is Consciousness”
Firstly, the realization that there is consciousness. Secondly, discovering what is not consciousness, which is the world. Finally,...
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...
De Beauvoir on Death: Between Sartre and Heidegger
Between de Beauvoir and death, there is a non-simple relatedness, in which Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and Heidegger’s...
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...
Sartre on God: Impossible and a Dream
The assumption that there exists a God, a conscious God that preceded and created the universe is something...
Sartre on Love: Paradoxical and Impossible
For Sartre, love is impossible; love is a project that inevitably fails. Love is an endeavor to be...
Sartre on Abandonment
According to Sartre, abandonment does not mean that we are forgotten about or left behind by a certain...
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...