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19 - Sartre's legacy

from Part III - ETHICS AND POLITICS

By
Steven Churchill
Edited by
Steven Churchill  and
Jack Reynolds
Steven Churchill
Affiliation:
La Trobe University
Jack Reynolds
Affiliation:
La Trobe University, Australia
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Shaping and contesting Sartre's legacy

The shaping of Sartre's legacy began while he was still alive. In part, this was due to a concerted effort from Sartre himself, and from Simone de Beauvoir along with others in his inner circle, to pre-empt posthumous evaluations, both positive and negative. In an extended interview with Pierre Vicary and de Beauvoir that was broadcast in early 1975 on ABC radio in Australia, Sartre was asked by Vicary: “How do you want to be remembered? What would you like your epitaph to be? How do you want people to remember the name Jean-Paul Sartre?”. Sartre responded in the following terms:

I would like them to remember [my novel] Nausea, [my plays] No Exit and The Devil and the Good Lord, and then my two philosophical works, more particularly the second one, Critique of Dialectical Reason. Then my essay on Genet, Saint Genet, which I wrote quite a long time ago. If these are remembered, that would be quite an achievement, and I don't ask for more. As a man, if a certain Jean-Paul Sartre is remembered, I would like people to remember the milieu or historical situation in which I lived, how I lived in it, in terms of all the aspirations which I tried to gather up within myself. This is how I would like to be remembered.

(Charlesworth 1975: 154)
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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 , pp. 213 - 228
Publisher: Acumen Publishing
Print publication year: 2013

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