The Last Bastion of Freedom

Exploring Sartre’s Conception of Freedom

Jean-Paul Sartre was a monumental philosopher and prolific writer in the 20th century. He was one of the main thinkers that helped usher in the era of Existentialist thought as the dominant philosophical movement in the last century.

William Barrett, in his book Irrational Man, mentions his philosophy by nature is seemingly rather unheroic. I disagree.

I think that while being scholarly and somewhat verbose, deep within his philosophy lies a primordial assertion of…