Sartre vs Althusser

[vox_populi]

I'm writing an essay about existenialism and Jean-Paul Sartre. And i read that the only debate Sartre ever lost was against the french Marxist-Leninist Louis Althusser. The problem is that i can't find anything about the debate. Does anyone here know about the debate?

P.S I didn't really know where to post this...so feel free to move it.

[Bannockburn]

Actually you don't need to go that far, simply look up Simone de Beauvoir. She influenced him, despite the dogmatic claims otherwise. For example Sartre's early position that man finds himself threaten by "the other", but later recounts this position of a less radical stance. Scholars attribute Beauvior with this.

[Monty Cantsin]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30 2006, 04:37 AM
Actually you don't need to go that far, simply look up Simone de Beauvoir. She influenced him, despite the dogmatic claims otherwise. For example Sartre's early position that man finds himself threaten by "the other", but later recounts this position of a less radical stance. Scholars attribute Beauvior with this.
I always understood it as Sartre changing that notion to historical rather then an essential component of the human condition.

[Lamanov]

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