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Situations: Politique et autobiographie

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Le dixième volume des Situations contient d'abord quatre textes politiques qui traitent de quatre des questions majeures de l'après-mai 68 : les luttes des minorités nationales ("Et si Sartre avait raison ?" se demandait en 1971 Le Monde lorsque sa préface au Procès de Burgos de Gisèle Halimi posa pour la première fois avec une telle netteté le droit des ethnies minoritaires à définir leur identité contre l'État centralisateur) ; les conditions de l'émergence d'une nouvelle gauche révolutionnaire (Les maos en France) ; l'opposition de la justice populaire à la justice d'État ; la contestation radicale de la démocratie représentative (Élections, piège à cons). La seconde partie est formée de trois entretiens à caractère autobiographique. Le premier de ces entretiens porte sur L'Idiot de famille. Dans le second, Simone de Beauvoir interroge Sartre sur ses rapports avec le féminisme. Enfin, le troisième - qui occupe à lui seul la moitié du volume - est la version intégrale et largement inédite de l'"Autoportrait à soixante-dix ans" dont Le Nouvel Observateur a publié des extraits. Dans cette longue conversation avec Michel Contat, Sartre dresse un bilan provisoire de sa vie et donne ainsi une première suite à son autobiographie, Les Mots.

232 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published January 21, 1976

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology). His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."
Sartre held an open relationship with prominent feminist and fellow existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre and de Beauvoir challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations of their upbringings, which they considered bourgeois, in both lifestyles and thought. The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity (mauvaise foi, literally, 'bad faith') and an "authentic" way of "being" became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant, 1943). Sartre's introduction to his philosophy is his work Existentialism Is a Humanism (L'existentialisme est un humanisme, 1946), originally presented as a lecture.

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