Oh please ... Sartre was a deluded fool without the savvy of a Horowitz, even, who ended up schlepping handbills on Champs Elysee.
True philosphers are marked by their awe, humility and coherence ... not their pedantry, messy lives, poor math and evolutionary, "new" truths to fit their subjective and compartmentalized realities.
Horowitz ended up schlepping handbills on Champs Elysee? Just checking. ;-)
Actually, Horowitz would be the first to admit he was a deluded fool in his radical youth. The difference is he discovered a vast disconnect between the real world and his preconceived ideology and changed his entire life as a result. It's doubtful that Jean-Paul Sartre even had such an insight, much less the moral courage to confront the lies he embraced.
I agree with you about Sartre. It's ironic that the term philosopher -- which means one who loves wisdom -- is used to describe an intellectually dishonest hypocrite like Sartre who wrote hundreds of pages of turgid, incomprehensible prose about literally nothing.
Horowitz is a witness in the Chambers-Muggeridge-Orwell-Solzhenitsyn tradition, i.e., someone who tells the truth about subjects the majority of men lie about. For example:
Why Israel Is The Victim And The Arabs Are The Indefensible Aggressors In the Middle East
Truth-tellers are rare, especially in times like these when "we have sunk to such a depth that restatement of the obvious is the first duty of public men," as Orwell said.