Abstract

This is one of two studies of Sartre's recently published Critique to appear in English, the other being Wilfrid Desan's The Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre. Since he relies for his information on Desan's summaries or Sartre, his criticisms, while reasonable and judicious, are of less value than would have been criticisms based on the work itself. The final chapter on the Critique is preceded by a discussion of Sartre's earlier work confronted with Marxist criticisms. This section of the book presents nothing essentially new, but does allow Odajnyk to compare the Sartre of the Critique with his earlier positions; Odajnyk concludes that Sartre has, instead of really reconciling his earlier existentialism with Marxism, substantially given up the former for the latter.—J. J.