Excerpt from Jean-Paul Sartre: Philosopher Without Faith
The painstaking analysis and logical systematization of man"s solitude, freedom, and responsibility, and the desire to probe the consequences of man"s independence and of his ultimate responsibility to himself - such are apparently the touchstones of the works which appeared between 1938 and 1946 and which made Jean-Paul Sartre a writer renowned throughout the world.
Sartre"s views are not new to our age. It may well be that the salient characteristic of the twentieth century is the absence of a rigorous doctrine to explain and direct human life. Horror in the face of convention and of the revelation of man"s nakedness is found at the dawn of the century in Peguy as well as in Gide and Unamuno, and the human drama that Malraux and Camus subsequently lived through is also that of man confronted by his destiny.
Nor is such an attitude essentially atheistic. To Bernanos also, man is free and responsible, and alone in the dark.
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