Jean-Paul Sartre and the Politics of Collective Freedom

Here, we learn of Sartre's 1960s commitment to Marxism, but also his later belief that "perpetual revolt" against the established order was the only feasible ethic that supported and promoted his existential notion of radical freedom... greatly influenced by the French student revolts of May, 1968, Sartre's politics became more aligned with revolutionary anarchism, which later came to alienate some of his supporters... his refusal of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature underscored his overall position...