Here’s a thought: Jean-Paul Sartre was a reactionary thinker. What grounds for this? Well, existenz philosophy is not really amenable to leftist ideas. It’s about freedom, a very radical and rooted freedom. Sartre was not really in the resistance in WWII.
Everyone was sceptical about his leftist credentials, because he studied in Germany. He reconciled Heidegger and Marx by going back to the early Marx and talking abut alienation, but was this opportunism? He needed to fit into the postwar left.
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The other option is esoteric. Sartre smuggled existenz philosophy back into the postwar world in a leftist guise. An esoteric reading of Sartre will reveal rightist content. Notably, he became a Maoist in his later years.
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And Maoism is, in a sense, the most rooted of the Communist regimes. Back to the land. Back to the peasants...almost smacks of...Heidegger. Sartre was indigestible to liberalism...so, is this it? I don’t mean that Sartre was a full blown reactionary, but a believer in freedom.
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...making his way in the postwar world. I must say this is one of my more bonkers ideas, I doubt it’s true. But it’s still interesting to think.
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