Creolizing Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre's work has been taken up by writers outside of Europe, particularly in the Global South, who have developed phenomenological and existential analyses of racism, colonialism, and other structures of domination. Sartre's philosophical concepts are fundamentally open, for instance his notions of humanism, bad-faith, and freedom.

As a situational, committed thinker, Sartre worked to illuminate the urgent questions of his time at the concrete and the abstract level. The creoliza...