Blogcritics: Comments on Sartre Rehabilitated?

Comment by Eric Olsen

Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:49:38 EST

thanks EG, glad it was helpful

Comment by Existentialistgirlie

Sat, 22 Nov 2003 08:43:40 EST

I'm happy to have stumbled onto your website. I am just getting into existentialism, and will book mark this.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:29:19 EDT

I'm fine with complexity, but not the particular complexity that led Sartre to advocate Soviet-style communism/totalitarianism, which is as anti-human and anti-liberationist as you can get. But I am also okay with separating out the messages: praising some, rejecting others.

Comment by Mac Diva

Mon, 29 Sep 2003 00:50:18 EDT

I don't believe Sartre needs to be rehabilitated. Though many people, especially among the petit bourgeoisie, are frightened by complexity, ultimately it is the only realistic approach to understanding the world we live in. One would be hard put to find an important thinker who was not complex. One of the most interesting developments in that area is contemporary research on Ben Franklin. The more scholars study him, the more complex a person they find.

Comment by Ralph Del Rio

Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:30:33 EDT

Sartre was like a fifteen been soup. There's an old saying goes something like...everybody's a liberal at 20, If you are a liberal at 40 you are an idiot! It's just when you get older the realities of life creep in and you need to make adjustments to your way of thinking. I do not think he was an apologist at all. It was his way of being a pragmatic. He was a wild one too.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:46:16 EDT

He was a Picasso-like figure

Comment by Mark Saleski

Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:42:16 EDT

gee, somehow i missed the fact that satre was such a wildman....i guess i was too busy in college existentialism class stuffing Nausea and Being & Nothingness into my head. (i was also spending way too much time staring at the prof...but that's another story)