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Editorial

Sartre for Starters

by Rick Lewis

The quintessential – I love that word, let me type it again – quintessential French intellectual, Jean-Paul Sartre, was 100 years old on June 21st this year. Sadly he no longer celebrates birthdays, having shuffled off this mortal coil in 1980, but that hasn’t stopped his legions of admirers from partying anyway. There have been conferences and seminars, in Rochester, NY, there was a birthday party complete with a cake (see here), and now we bring you an issue of Philosophy Now dedicated to the sage.

This special issue was suggested by Debbie Evans and I’d like to thank the members of the UK Society for Sartrean Studies for their enthusiastic participation. Their Secretary, Benedict O’Donohoe, contributed our opening piece, to ask “Why Study Sartre?” and then supply the answer.

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