1st Edition
Sartre and Contemporary Political Theory The Later Sartre and the Challenges of the Present
List of Contributors
1. Introduction: Why Sartre, Why Now?
Kristian Klockars, Mattias Lehtinen, Austin Hayden Smidt
Part 1: The Political Philosophy of the Later Sartre
2. Sartre’s Politics of Invention
Kristian Klockars
3. Bridging Marx and Sartre: Seriality, Alienation, and the Critique of Political Economy
Austin Hayden Smidt
4. Trust and Social Transformation in Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason
Gavin Rae
5. From Institutions to Freedom: Sartre’s Critical Theory of Power
Maria Russo
6. The Cultural Logic of Early Capitalism: On the Concepts of Ideology and Objective Spirit in The Family Idiot
Chiara Collamati
Part 2: The Later Sartre and Contemporary Issues
7. Democracy Disrupted? Thinking the Impurity of Constituting Power with Sartre
Mattias Lehtinen
8. Thinking Populist Embodiment with Sartre: A Materialist Approach
Xenophon Tenezakis
9. Becoming Human: Sartre’s Late Ethics and the Politics of Disability Justice
Kimberly S. Engels
10. Existentialist Anti-colonialism: Returning to Mudimbe’s Reading of Sartre
T Storm Heter
11. From Economic Degrowth to Ecological Liberation: Political Ecology’s Sartrean Past and Future
Damon Boria
12. Elements of a Sartrean Political Geology
Matthew C. Ally
Biography
Kristian Klockars is Senior University Lecturer in Practical Philosophy at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. He specializes in contemporary political philosophy, critical theory and continental philosophy. He is the author of Sartre’s Anthropology as a Hermeneutics of Praxis (1998).
Mattias Lehtinen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Politics Unit at Tampere University, Finland. He specializes in contemporary political theory with a focus on the continental tradition and democratic theory. He has published articles on contemporary issues related for example to political imagination, polarization and climate politics.
Austin Hayden Smidt is an Honorary Research Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He works across critical political economy, philosophy, and monetary theory. His research examines finance, value, liquidity, commensuration, and the institutional forms through which capitalism organizes social and political possibility. He is the author of Sartre, Imagination and Dialectical Reason: Creating Society as a Work of Art (2019) and has completed a forthcoming monograph on time and financial power.
