Originally translated into English in 1974, Between Existentialism and Marxism compiles Jean-Paul Sartre’s critical essays, political tracts, and extended interviews written between 1960 and 1971. The volume documents his late-career efforts to reconcile the radical, individual freedom of his early existentialist philosophy with the structural, material constraints of Marxist historical materialism. The non-linear arrangement features an influential autobiographical self-critique alongside analytical texts confronting the Vietnam War, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the psychoanalytic profile of French novelist Gustave Flaubert. Functioning as an indispensable reference tool for twentieth-century political philosophy, this text tracks Sartre’s intellectual evolution away from pure subjective alienation toward an active, institutional critique of global capitalism and state power.
