The Theatre of Politics
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https://doi.org/10.18352/relief.34Keywords:
Sartre, Kean, Les Mots, La Nausée, Carnets de la drôle de guerre, Le Mur, L'Enfance d'un Chef, La Chambre, L'Etre et le Néant, existentialisme, D.J. van Lennep, multiculturel, Réflexions sur la question juiveAbstract
Today, everyone chooses their own Sartre, just as they chose their own Marx in the distant 1960s, whether from the Grundrisse, the 1848 manuscripts or Capital. A quote: “In any case, social order today rests on the mystification of consciences, as well as disorder. Nazism was one mystification, Gaullism is another, Catholicism is a third; there is no doubt now that French Communism is a fourth.” This is Sartre speaking, the Sartre of 1947, the Sartre of Qu'est-ce que la littérature? - the Sartre whom it is perhaps most satisfying to follow today. (Situations II, p. 306. Quoted by Julia Kristeva.) The 2005 centenary revealed that Sartre is still the living object of controversy, that the name covers a man and a way of thinking that must be attacked because, as he put it, “intelligence offends”.
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