Yeah EIAH is what I recommend to anyone looking at existentialism for the first time. Besides the pedophile apologia stuff they all had I actually quite liked most of Sartre’s works. I like Simone way more and The Second Sex is one of my favourite books ever (there’s actually some really interesting critiques of Engels in there).
I think I agree that those two at least were Marxists, even if it was part of the pretty ineffective Western European left of post-WWII.
Wasn’t the paedophilia thing something related to a comparison with homosexuality? Like homosexuality was illegal and so paedophilia so they compared the absurd of one with the other? Maybe im wrong tho.
yeah iirc the 1977 petition was because sodomy was legal at 18 yet hetero sex was legal at 15. At this level it’s fine but Foucault and Sartre took it further by arguing that minors were capable of sexual relations. Foucault called consent a “contract” and said it can’t accurately determine the actual feelings of the people in the relationship which just comes off kind of strange to me
Camus wasn’t only an anarchist he actively protested the USSR and said it wasn’t socialist at all
Yeah EIAH is what I recommend to anyone looking at existentialism for the first time. Besides the pedophile apologia stuff they all had I actually quite liked most of Sartre’s works. I like Simone way more and The Second Sex is one of my favourite books ever (there’s actually some really interesting critiques of Engels in there).
I think I agree that those two at least were Marxists, even if it was part of the pretty ineffective Western European left of post-WWII.
Wasn’t the paedophilia thing something related to a comparison with homosexuality? Like homosexuality was illegal and so paedophilia so they compared the absurd of one with the other? Maybe im wrong tho.
Camus was an anarchist iirc, so iugh.
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Ahh, waht a stupid thing.
yeah iirc the 1977 petition was because sodomy was legal at 18 yet hetero sex was legal at 15. At this level it’s fine but Foucault and Sartre took it further by arguing that minors were capable of sexual relations. Foucault called consent a “contract” and said it can’t accurately determine the actual feelings of the people in the relationship which just comes off kind of strange to me
Camus wasn’t only an anarchist he actively protested the USSR and said it wasn’t socialist at all