L'Etre at Neant reads like a bad rehash of Heidegger by a college student who has not read Heidegger particularly well.
Sarte's "literature" is unreadable, politicized garbage, his "philosophy" is unreadable, derivative garbage, and his politics are execrable garbage.
The less said about his economic ideas, the better.
The fact is, Camus was a far more talented writer and philosopher than Sartre ever was or could be, and the neglect of Camus is far worse for France than the imagined neglect (Sartre is still celebrated in France and he was lionized while alive, despite the ridiculous comments in the article) of the cheerleader of the 1972 Munich terrorists.
Ecrasez le mediocrite!
Very well said. I've often thought that both Sartre and Foucault each read one Nietzsche book once and then based their entire philosophical outlook on that reading. That said, at least Foucault has some interesting thoughts on epistemology and ontology. Sartre just sucks.
Etre at Neant reads like a bad rehash of Heidegger by a college student who has not read Heidegger particularly.
___A very glib dismissal. Have you read L'ETRE or BEING AND TIME? There are some shared concepts, but Sartre delves into human reality in a way Heidegger never did.
Sartre was a leftist kook (and Heidegger supported the Nazis) outside of his philosophy, but as a philospher, one of the giants of the 20th century....I'm not going to let my politics deny his talent.
i agree with your post 100%. i like camus.
>"L'Etre at Neant reads like a bad rehash of Heidegger by a college student who has not read Heidegger particularly well."
it is a bad re-hash because sartre returned to the dualism that heidegger had worked long to reject.
Camus was a far more talented writer and philosopher than Sartre ever was or could be.
___Camus was an essayist and a novelist, not a philosopher.