Jean-Paul Sartre: Difference between revisions

 

===Sartre as a public intellectual===

Sartre has been called "the most written about twentieth-century author."<ref>Jonathan Judaken, "Review of ''Jean-Paul Sartre''," ''The Historian'' 69.4 (Winter 2007): 832.</ref> At the same time, his relationship with the media is not only fraught from his individual perspective but is indicative of the societal issue of the intellectual as a subject of knowledge and the concrete subject of an intellectual and their role. What Sartre encapsulates is the "complex and paradoxical role of the intellectual in post-industrial western societies, and symbolic of the voice of political and cultural dissidence struggling for the freedom of expression in an environment increasingly subject to rapid technological change." (Scriven 1993: 1).