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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Jean-Paul Sartre or his works
  • noun A follower of Sartre

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Examples

  • The view from the top is epistemologically crippling, and reduces its subjects to the illusions of a host of fragmented subjectivities, to the poverty of the individual experience of isolated nomads … This placeless individuality, this structural idealism which affords us the luxury of the Sartrean blink, offers a welcome escape from the ‘nightmare of history,’ but at the same time it condemns our culture to psychologism and the ‘projections’ of private subjectivity.

    Matthew Yglesias » Time to Play This Video Again I Guess 2009

  • For the past 21 years, however, Ki-yong has been harboring a secret: He's a North Korean sleeper agent who, as a teenager, was expertly trained in the accents and customs of the South at a fake village straight out of that old 1960s TV excursion into Sartrean discourse, "Secret Agent."

    "Your Republic Is Calling You," by Korean novelist Young-ha Kim Maureen Corrigan 2010

  • The goy is still a threatening figure, but absolutely necessary, because who are we without the Sartrean goy who defines us?

    Avraham Burg: When The Walls Come Tumbling Down Avraham Burg 2011

  • So, the Prime Directive of the Protocols of the Elders of Sodom is something akin to Kant's Categorical Imperative, with maybe a dash of Sartrean good faith: that the standard over-riding all others is that one must, with empathy in mind, use all one's ethical faculties in every situation in a passionate but reasoned attempt to make the best possible evaluation of the most ethical course of action.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • For the past 21 years, however, Ki-yong has been harboring a secret: He's a North Korean sleeper agent who, as a teenager, was expertly trained in the accents and customs of the South at a fake village straight out of that old 1960s TV excursion into Sartrean discourse, "Secret Agent."

    "Your Republic Is Calling You," by Korean novelist Young-ha Kim Maureen Corrigan 2010

  • So, the Prime Directive of the Protocols of the Elders of Sodom is something akin to Kant's Categorical Imperative, with maybe a dash of Sartrean good faith: that the standard over-riding all others is that one must, with empathy in mind, use all one's ethical faculties in every situation in a passionate but reasoned attempt to make the best possible evaluation of the most ethical course of action.

    An Open Letter to John C. Wright Hal Duncan 2009

  • The goy is still a threatening figure, but absolutely necessary, because who are we without the Sartrean goy who defines us?

    Avraham Burg: When The Walls Come Tumbling Down Avraham Burg 2011

  • At the risk of sounding Sartrean (or Scientology-y) that's just too narrow a view.

    Flower's Precious Play SVGL 2009

  • She fell head over heels for the world-view Camus espoused, his contention that life can only be understood as absurd (a word he liked using), irrevocably leading to an existential outlook (a Sartrean condition with which he claimed to disagree.)

    David Finkle: Writing Under the Influence, Living Under the Influence 2009

  • The Sartrean uses the Jew simply as grist for his dialectical mill (the Jew does not exist in his own right but achieves authenticity by redefining positively the negative image that the antisemite projects on him).

    Charlotte Wardi. 2009

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