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133Camus versus Sartre: The unresolved conflictSartre Studies International 11 (s 1-2): 302-310. 2005.By what incredible foresight did the most significant intellectual quarrel of the twentieth century anticipate the major issue of the twenty-first? When Camus and Sartre parted ways in 1952, the main question dividing them was political violence—specifically, that of communism. And as they continued to jibe at each other during the next decade, especially during the war in Algeria, one of the major issues between them became terrorism. The 1957 and 1964 Nobel Laureates were divided sharply over …Read more
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121Between heaven and earthThe Philosophers' Magazine 48 (48): 73-80. 2010.One of the paradoxes of the Culture War is that opposites conspire with each other against the rest of us. We are offered an impoverished, narrow conception of reason and knowledge, proposing a stark choice to the rest of us: approach life’s important questions through science, or turn to religion. This was a false choice two hundred years ago, and it remains so today.
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99Hope and actionThe Philosophers' Magazine 38 (38): 40-42. 2007.One of the paradoxes of the Culture War is that opposites conspire with each other against the rest of us. We are offered an impoverished, narrow conception of reason and knowledge, proposing a stark choice to the rest of us: approach life’s important questions through science, or turn to religion. This was a false choice two hundred years ago, and it remains so today
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76Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended ItUniversity of Chicago Press. 2004.Until now it has been impossible to read the full story of the relationship between Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Their dramatic rupture at the height of the Cold War, like that conflict itself, demanded those caught in its wake to take sides rather than to appreciate its tragic complexity. Now, using newly available sources, Ronald Aronson offers the first book-length account of the twentieth century's most famous friendship and its end. Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre first met in 1943,…Read more
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55The following books have been received and are available for review. Please contact the Reviews Editor: jim. oshea@ ucd. ie (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 12 (4). 2004.
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49Sartre, Camus, and the caliban articlesSartre Studies International 7 (2): 1-7. 2001.In October and November, 1948, an exchange on democracy between Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus appeared in Jean Daniel's monthly Caliban. At first glance these articles confirm the prevailing sense that the 1952 split was inevitable. But reading the break back into the relationship presents it with a kind of necessity, corresponding to the law of "analysis after the event" described by Doris Lessing. Inasmuch as it resulted in a break, we are tempted to focus from the start on "the laws of di…Read more
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45Sartre on stalin: A discussion of critique de la raison dialectique, IIStudies in East European Thought 33 (2): 131-143. 1987.
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42Abbas, Niran, ed. Mapping Michel Serres. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. $27.95 pb. Achinstein, Peter, ed. Scientific Evidence: Philosophical Theories and Applications. Balti-more: John Hopkins University Press, 2005. $49.95 Armour-Garb, Bradley P. and JC Beall, eds. Deflationary Truth. Chicago: Open Court, 2005 (review)Philosophy Today. forthcoming.
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41Revisiting Existential MarxismSartre Studies International 25 (2): 92-98. 2019.Alfred Betschart has claimed that the project of existential Marxism is a contradiction in terms, but this argument, even when supported by many experts and quotes from Sartre’s 1975 interview, misses the point of my Boston Review article, “The Philosophy of Our Time.” I believe the important argument today is not about whether we can prove that Sartre ever became a full-fledged Marxist, but rather about the political and philosophical possibility, and importance today, of existentialist Marxism…Read more
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36Sartre contre Camus : le conflit jamais résoluCités 22 (2): 53. 2005.En vertu de quelle prescience la querelle la plus importante du XXe siècle a-t-elle annoncé la plus grande question du XXIe ? Lors de la rupture entre Camus et Sartre, le point sur lequel ils étaient le plus divisés était la question de la violence politique et spécifiquement celle du communisme. Et au fur et à mesure qu’ils continuaient à s’attaquer mutuellement, de façon codée,..
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36Interpreting Husserl and Heidegger: The Root of Sartre's ThoughtTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1972 (13): 47-67. 1972.
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35Sartre versus CamusRadical Philosophy Review 4 (1-2): 102-116. 2001.The author argues for a conjunction of Albert Camus’s “idealism” with Jean-Paul Sartre’s “dialectical realism” as a corrective to the limitation of each for the sake of a viable transformative politics.
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28Pinker and progressHistory and Theory 52 (2): 246-264. 2013.Condorcet's classical Enlightenment statement of human progress became an essential element of nineteenth- and twentieth-century consciousness, but by the millennium grand narratives had fallen victim to a disillusioned cultural climate. Now Steven Pinker, like Condorcet drawing on a wide range of contemporary “knowledges,” has reasserted a sweeping narrative of human progress in The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Mapping a spectacular long-term decline in person-on-pers…Read more
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26David Schweickart’s Left-Over Marxism (review)Radical Philosophy Review of Books 11 (9): 31-35. 1995.
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26Celebrating the Critique’s Fiftieth AnniversarySartre Studies International 16 (2): 1-16. 2010.When published, Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason appeared to be a major intellectual and political event, no less than a Kantian effort to found Marxism, with far-reaching theoretical and political consequences. Claude Levi-Strauss devoted a course to studying it, and debated Sartre's main points in The Savage Mind ; Andre Gorz devoted a major article to explaining its importance and key concepts in New Left Review . Many analysts of the May, 1968 events in Paris claimed that they were an…Read more
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24Communism's posthumous trialHistory and Theory 42 (2). 2003.The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stéphane Courtois The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century by François Furet The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century by Tony Judt Le Siècle des communismes by Michel Dreyfus
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21Book Review:Social Theory at a Crossroads. William L. McBride (review)Ethics 93 (4): 813-. 1983.
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