Unfinished Projects: Decolonization and the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre

In this major rereading of Sartre's life and work, Paige Arthur traces the relationship between the philosopher's decades-long commitment to decolonization and his intellectual thought. Where other commentators have focused on the tensions between Sartre's Marxism and his account of existential freedom-usually to denigrate one in favor of the other-Arthur shows that Sartre's political engagement with global liberation movements and his philosophical framework were inextricably intertwined.

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