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The Concept of Ideology in Sartre: ‘Situatedness’ as an Epistemological and Anthropological Concept

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1968

Hermann Wein
Hermann Wein
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Göttingen University
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The main sources of the style of contemporary philosophy, sources which run counter to the style of classical philosophy, come together in the intellectual development and works of Jean-Paul Sartre. In him can be seen the styles of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and perhaps even of Wittgenstein. Sartre's L'être et le néant was one focal point of these influences. A re-evaluation of Marx is characteristic of his later works. Marx's philosophical theory is more than just a theory:

… it was not the idea which unsettled us; nor was it the condition of the worker, which we knew abstractly but which we had not experienced. No, it was the two joined together. It was—as we would have said then in our idealist jargon even as we were breaking with idealism—the Proletariat as the incarnation and vehicle of an idea.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , June 1968 , pp. 1 - 15
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1968

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