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Edward Said · Diary: My Encounter with Sartre

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Vol. 22 No. 11 · 1 June 2000 My Encounter with Sartre Edward Said Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 3647 words Once the most celebrated intellectual, Jean-Paul Sartre had, until quite recently, almost faded from view. He was already being attacked for his 'blindness' about the Soviet gulags shortly after his death in 1980, and even his humanist Existentialism was ridiculed for its optimism, voluntarism and sheer energetic reach. Sartre's whole career was offensive both to the so-called Nouveaux Philosophes, whose mediocre attainments had only a fervid anti-Communism to attra

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