Judaken, Jonathan, (2006) Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Jean-Paul Sartre (7 December 1974). "The Slow Death of Andreas Baader". Marxists.org. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008 . Retrieved 2 March 2010. Histoire du monde.net". histoiredumonde.net. Archived from the original on 6 February 2022 . Retrieved 17 August 2014. A child: another consciousness, a little centre-point of light that would flutter round and round, dashing against the walls, and never be able to escape. (p.46)

Nobel Prize facts". NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB. Archived from the original on 15 August 2018 . Retrieved 26 May 2019. Sartre's physical condition deteriorated, partially because of the merciless pace of work (and the use of amphetamine) [86] he put himself through during the writing of the Critique and a massive analytical biography of Gustave Flaubert ( The Family Idiot), both of which remained unfinished. He had hypertension, [87] and became almost completely blind in 1973. Sartre was a notorious chain smoker, which could also have contributed to the deterioration of his health. [88] That ghastly self-contempt, that utterly weak, futile, weak, moribund self-contempt, which seemed at every moment on the point of self-annihilation, but always survived. (p.270) Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Social Advocate". Tameri.com. Archived from the original on 28 October 2011 . Retrieved 27 October 2011.Boris is similarly self-conscious. In the nightclub he feels Lola’s scrutiny as a physical sensation. Here I am, lounging in a chair, committed to my present life right up to the ears and believing in nothing. The novel, set in the bohemian Paris in 1938, focuses on three days in the life of philosophy teacher Mathieu who is seeking money to pay for an abortion for his girlfriend, Marcelle. Sartre analyses the motives of various characters and their actions and takes into account the perceptions of others to give the reader a comprehensive picture of the main character. In a few days she would be nothing but a lump of misery… A slime of pity had engulfed him. He had no sympathy for Marcelle, and he felt profoundly disgusted… (p.160)

Adler, Franz (1949). "The Social Thought of Jean-Paul Sartre". American Journal of Sociology. 55 (3): 284–294. doi: 10.1086/220538. S2CID 144247304. Unpleasant enough, but the text goes way beyond a universal physical revulsion into metaphysical disgust. Consciousness itself is seen as an impossible heavy, wearing, and disgusting phenomenon. It starts with his dislike of children, progresses through his disgust at the growing foetus, and spreads like a stain into a helpless horror at the sheer disgustingness of being alive, at being conscious, at having: If you enjoyed The Age of Reason, you might like Sartre's Nausea, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

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Sartre's Debt to Rousseau" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 June 2011 . Retrieved 2 March 2010. Sartre shows how difficult it can be to take charge of one's own life -- to accept that one has the responsibilities that come with 'the age of reason' -- and none of his characters achieve it in this volume.

Sartre went to Cuba in the 1960s to meet Fidel Castro and spoke with Ernesto "Che" Guevara. After Guevara's death, Sartre would declare him to be "not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age" [72] and the "era's most perfect man". [73] Sartre would also compliment Guevara by professing that "he lived his words, spoke his own actions and his story and the story of the world ran parallel". [74] However he stood against the persecution of gays by Castro's government, which he compared to Nazi persecution of the Jews, and said: "In Cuba there are no Jews, but there are homosexuals". [75] Sartre mistakes movement -- Mathieu is almost constantly on the go -- for real action, and there's just not enough depth to his characters, in the way they are presented. I tried to take advantage of the experiments in technique that certain writers of simultaneity, like Dos Passos and Virginia Woolf, have undertaken. I took up their question at the very point where they had let it lie, and I tried to uncover something new along this path. The reader will say whether or not I've succeeded." [16] Beyond that, however, the various characters all have their own little issues to deal with -- which includes the tragi-comic, as, for example, Boris wakes up to find Lola dead in bed with him (which might not sound very comical, but proves to be, in the end).Mathieu makes his rounds, asking those who might be able to help him out -- while always inclined to stop off for a few drinks -- and eventually trying to get the money by other means (a loan, a theft), and it is his trying to deal with setting up the abortion that is the main plotline of the novel.

Bondy 1967, p.28: "To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp." Quelques Anciens Celebres". Hattemer. Archived from the original on 18 June 2015 . Retrieved 30 June 2015.This theory relies upon his position that there is no creator, and is illustrated using the example of the paper cutter. Sartre says that if one considered a paper cutter, one would assume that the creator would have had a plan for it: an essence. Sartre said that human beings have no essence before their existence because there is no Creator. Thus: "existence precedes essence". [93] This forms the basis for his assertion that because one cannot explain one's own actions and behavior by referring to any specific human nature, they are necessarily fully responsible for those actions. "We are left alone, without excuse." "We can act without being determined by our past which is always separated from us." [95] His work after Stalin's death, the Critique de la raison dialectique ( Critique of Dialectical Reason), appeared in 1960 (a second volume appearing posthumously). In the Critique Sartre set out to give Marxism a more vigorous intellectual defense than it had received until then; he ended by concluding that Marx's notion of "class" as an objective entity was fallacious. Sartre's emphasis on the humanist values in the early works of Marx led to a dispute with a leading leftist intellectual in France in the 1960s, Louis Althusser, who claimed that the ideas of the young Marx were decisively superseded by the "scientific" system of the later Marx. In the late 1950s, Sartre began to argue that the European working classes were too apolitical to carry out the revolution predicated by Marx, and influenced by Frantz Fanon started to argue it was the impoverished masses of the Third World, the "real damned of the earth", who would carry out the revolution. [71] A major theme of Sartre's political essays in the 1960s was of his disgust with the "Americanization" of the French working class who would much rather watch American TV shows dubbed into French than agitate for a revolution. [52] Walking down the street is a trial for several of the characters: the heat, the sunlight, the other people, the noise threatens to overwhelm and drown them, to flood and erase their sense of self.