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Jean-Paul Sartre wurde am 21. Juni 1905 in Paris geboren. Mit seinem 1943 erschienenen philosophischen Hauptwerk 'Das Sein und das Nichts' wurde er zum wichtigsten Vertreter des Existentialismus und zu einem der einflussreichsten Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine Theaterstücke, Romane, Erzählungen und Essays machten ihn weltbekannt. Durch sein bedingungsloses humanitäres Engagement, besonders im französischen Algerien-Krieg und im amerikanischen Vietnam-Krieg, wurde er zu einer Art Weltgewissen. 1964 lehnte er die Annahme des Nobelpreises für Literatur ab. Er starb am 15. April 1980 in Paris.
Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartres writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work.
Acknowledgements "Preface "by Robert J.C. Young Introduction: Remembering Sartre by Azzedine Haddour From One China to Another Colonialism is a System Albert Memmi's "The Colonizer and the Colonized" You Are Wonderful We Are All Murderers A Victory The Pretender The Constitution of Contempt The Frogs Who Demand a King The Analysis of the Referendum The Sleepwalkers The Wretched of the Earth The Political Thought of Patrice Lumumba
Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre's writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable intellect relentlessly to bear on his own country's conduct in Algeria, and by extension, the West's conduct in the Third World in general. Whether one agrees with his every conclusion or not, Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism shows a philosopher passionately engaged in using philosophy as a force for change in the world. An important influence on postcolonial thought ever since, this book takes on added resonance in the light of the West's most recent bout of interference in the non-Western world.
