Freedom and Alienation in Sartre

Abstract

The big theorical problem that underlies Sartre’s philosophical and literary work is the moral problem that, inevitably, goes around the notion of freedom. The latter is dealt (under its alienated form) in Being and Nothingness, as well as in Critique of Dialectical Reason. In between these works, Sartre wrote some –incomplete– notes that were posthumously published as Cahiers pour une morale, in which we also find a sustained reflection upon alienation and its relation with freedom. The following article looks into this problem mainly through these works, without excluding other works from the French philosopher.