Sartre

ESSAY: The Golden Age of French philosophy (1945–1989) created something great. An atmosphere, a new way of thinking, a new way of being. A freedom-hungry life experiment. So what then went wrong?

JEAN PAUL SARTRE: In this article, Vladimir Dedijer describes how French society is becoming increasingly authoritarian. Basic freedoms are set aside, the National Assembly is powerless and the police have free rein to carry out the purest terror against people with opinions that deviate from the official ones. Torture and stinking prison cells are also part of the image of France in 1971.

Jean Paul Sartre is called the most important thinker in postwar Europe. Based on two Sartre books – Walter Biehmels Sartre (Cappelen) and Jean Paul Sartre: Political Writings. In committees at Dag Østerberg (PAX) – University lecturer Audun Øfsti here gives an introduction to Sartre's authorship, his critique of dogmatic Marxism in which he clears space for existentialism and his analysis of the concepts class, collective, state, as they are presented in the essay, among others. Patrice Lumumba: A political portrait.

Existentialists stared at the emptiness in the white eye – and still tried to preserve their humanity. Göran Rosenberg reads a brilliant story about a bunch of philosophers who remain current even today.

This month, Dag Østerberg published the book From Marx' to newer capital criticism. We take the opportunity to take up Marx in a critical way – with themes such as alienation, competitive society, as well as the role of anarchism and intellectuals now.