Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 The Existentialist Moment retraces Sartre?s career and provides a compelling...
Jean-Paul Sartre is often seen as the quintessential public intellectual, but this was not always the case. Until the mid-1940s he was not so well-known, even in France. Then suddenly, in a very short period of time, Sartre became an intellectual celebrity. How can we explain this remarkable transformation?