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.
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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