Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization
by
Yoav Di-Capua
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
It is a curious and relatively little-known fact that for two decades—from the end of World War II until the late 1960s—existentialism’s most fertile ground outside of Europe was in the Middle East, and Jean-Paul Sartre was the Arab intelligentsia’s uncontested champion. In the Arab world,...