How Jean-Paul Sartre Attempted to Marry Marxism and Existentialism

By Emily EakinJuly 21, 2026

It’s hard to overstate 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 one. And the École Normale, an institution filled with

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