Unfinished Projects: Decolonization and the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre

Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction: Sartre, the Intellectual left, and the Emergence of the "Cultural" other......Page 9
Part I Politicization: Sartre and Postwar Anticolonialism, 1945-1954......Page 30
1 Putting Constraints on Freedom: A Philosophy of Marginal Groups......Page 32
2 African Presence: Sartre on US and Colonial Racism in the Late 1940s......Page 52
3 From Gide to Sartre: The Practice of Anticolonialism......Page 72
Part II Sartre and the Ends of Anticolonialism, 1954-1962......Page 86
4 Toward a Theory of Colonialism: Sartre's Engagement with the "Subhuman"......Page 88
5 Colonialism and the Critique of Dialectical Reason......Page 106
6 The Aftermath of the Critique: Struggles over the Meanings of Colonialism......Page 124
Part III Far Away, So Close: The Third World, Neocolonialism, and the Ethics of Global Responsibility, 1962-1968......Page 148
7 The Turn Toward Third Worldism: On the Assassination of Lumumba......Page 150
8 The Ethics of Global Responsibilty: The 1964 "Rome Lecture"......Page 168
9 Vietnam and Bolivia: Two Battles, Two Intellectuals......Page 184
Part IV Decolonization on Trial, 1968-1980......Page 206
10 Sartre, the Left, and Identity in Postcolonial France......Page 208
11 The Critique of Third Worldism and the Human Rights Turn......Page 228
Conclusion: "He Ran While Dead"-Afterlives of Colonialism and Jean-Paul Sartre......Page 254
Index......Page 258
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