SARTRE (Jean Paul). - Lot 205

SARTRE (Jean Paul). Born in Paris. 1905-1980. Philosopher, playwright and writer. AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT entitled "Ideologie et finalité". S.l.n.d. (1950s). 1 in-folio page on checked paper. Fragment of an autograph draft in which Sartre records a few thoughts (for his book Critique de la raison dialectique, Gallimard, 1960?): ...One sees: a convenience between the economic and social situation on the one hand, and religious myths and the current system of ideas on the other. Let's admit the connection and assume that, for the most part at least, it's not ideas that produce the economy. Should we imagine the opposite? But the relation of production is vague here. Do we mean that men are produced in such a way that they cannot help but form thoughts? Or that they produce others, but that statistically, it's these that remain...The work of French philosopher and writer (playwright, novelist and short story writer) Jean-Paul Sartre marked the middle of the 20th century. Prolific and hyperactive, Sartre is known as much for his work, in particular the philosophical paradigms grouped together under the name of existentialism, as for his radical left-wing political commitment.After the Liberation, Sartre enjoyed great success and fame, and for over a decade reigned over French literature. Advocating commitment as an end in itself, he disseminated his ideas through the magazine he founded in 1945, Les Temps modernes. Sartre shared his pen with Simone de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty and Raymond Aron, among others. In the long editorial of the first issue, he set out the principle of the intellectual's responsibility to his times, and of committed literature.