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“If Sartre was the most important living philosopher, Marx was the most important dead one.”
“By then, even Sartre had lost his enthusiasm for the USSR and had broken with the doctrinaire French communists.”
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“For Sartre, the great limitation of orthodox Marxism was that it had nothing to say about individuals.”
“Moving fluidly among genres—from novels and plays to essays, and even a handful of screenplays—he showed that philosophy could be literary and literature philosophical.”
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“It’s a shame because Sartre’s lasting contribution to the field, beyond existentialism itself, was stylistic.”
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“And the École Normale, an institution filled with young men “overeducated in the art of interpretation,” as Derrida put it, was a central incubator of Marxist zeal.”
“These rifts were mirrored at the École, where students argued about politics and split into groups according to their leftist persuasions.”
““In France, the owl of Minerva does not spread its wings at dusk but at mid-morning the next day,” observed one historian, paraphrasing Hegel.”
“Even so, a generally militant atmosphere prevailed, and few dared admit to harboring more conservative views.”
“By way of proof, he offered the case of Flaubert.”
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“For the title of his 1955 bestseller, The Opium of the Intellectuals , he took inspiration from a damning critique by Simone Weil: “Marxism is undoubtedly a religion, in the lowest sense of the word.”
“But for hardcore believers, this didn’t mean that the philosophy undergirding the Soviet experiment was wrong.”
“He wrote it in haste, at the height of the Algerian War, propelled by irritation with Aron, animus toward the French Communist Party, and up to twenty pills of Corydrane, an amphetamine, per day.”
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“This is a shame, and not only because the book’s style obscures its significance as the most high-profile effort by that date to marry what were then the two most important currents of French philosophy.”
“But it failed to explain “why Flaubert preferred literature to everything else, nor why he lived like an anchorite, nor why he wrote these books rather than those of Duranty or the Goncourt brothers.” To answer such questions, Sartre argued, we needed to consider Flaubert’s childhood and the psychodynamics of his family life.”
“The French knew about some of Stalin’s excesses—the show trials, the labor camps, the bloody purges of those who strayed from the party line.”
“Even as Sartre’s intellectual star began to dim, and existentialism fell into disrepute, this focus on lived experience endured, though recast in ways Sartre might not have recognized or approved.”