Abstract

Lévy: “For some time you have been asking yourself about hope and despair. These are themes that you did not treat very much in your writings.”

Sartre: “At least, not in the same way. Because I always thought that everyone loves with hope, I mean that everyone thinks that whatever he has undertaken, or whatever concerns him, or the social group to which he belongs, is in the process of being fulfilled, and will be favorable to him as well as to the people who constitute his community. I believe that hope is part of man; human action is transcendent, that is to say, that it always aims at a future object from the present in which it is conceived.