Literary Center » How Jean-Paul Sartre Tried to Marry Marxism and Existentialism
It is difficult to underestimate the enthusiasm of French intellectuals for Marxist theory in the 1950s and 60s. If Sartre was the most important living philosopher, Marx was the most important dead philosopher. And the École Normale, an institution full of youth “overeducated in the art of interpretation”, as Derrida put it, was a central