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Sartre’s ‘Existentialism Is a Humanism’: Some Thoughts

Matthew Lowery
6 min readApr 18, 2020

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I’ve always found Sartre a better writer (novelist, playwright, and so on) than a philosopher. Certainly, Being and Nothingness is an impressive work — an intelligent, thorough, analytic tome inquiring into the roots and nature of human subjectivity. And yet this text, at least, is a mixed bag for me. I’m not entirely sure why I decided to return to this text for the first time in God knows how…

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Matthew Lowery

PhD student. Interests in critical theory, radical democracy, new materialism, ideology, science fiction, and extreme metal.