In this original, yet highly accessible work, Martin aims to recover the radicality of Sartre's political project by examining his political interventions, including the debate concerning the Soviet Union during the Stalin period, the question of electoral politics during May 1968 and its aftermath. Looking closely at a number of Sartre's texts, including Materialism and Revolution, The Critique of Dialectical Reason, What is Literature, and journalistic works and interviews, Martin seeks to reveal Sartre's continuing contribution to philosophy in the wake of postmodern, post-socialist and poststructuralist movements.

Author Biography

Bill Martin is the author of numerous books including Matrix and line: Derrida and the possibilities of postmodern social theory and Humanism and its aftermath: the shared fate of deconstruction and politics. He teaches courses in the areas of social theory, continental philosophy, and literary and musical aesthetics as professor of philosophy at DePaul University.