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The writings published here are not so much an epitome as episodes. But most do not digress. They mark the turns and turning points of a human style, the tropes of an expressive life embodying the changing tempos of an age. Until we fall silent, all of us are trying to say. These fragmentary efforts to speak to, rejoin, and help create a new community of liberated human beings constitute the epigraphs of Sartre's historical inscription.
"We Write for Our Own Time," one of them snaps out at those who dream of ancient absolutes. The passionate loves that you choose and live out from day to day until you die are your absolute, and all these loves together constitute the absolute we call an age. Books express a life and times. In their own time, in their concrete situation constituted by the specific changes they seek to effect, their truth is absolute. The times, and the writing which helps constitute them and the writer himself in his relation to them, are a product of the understandings, choices and commitments which make sense of human situations. So there is no banality in saying that the writings published here are varying expressions of Sartre's attempts to shape the meaning of his life and times. [...] (From the publisher)

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Translator's Preface
The Angel of Morbidity
Jesus the Owl, Small-Town Schoolteacher
The Theory of the State in Modem French Thought
The Legend of Truth
Motion Picture Art
Foods
Official Portraits
Faces
Bariona, or the Son of Thunder
Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Sick at Heart
Drieu la Rochelle, or Self-Hatred
A More Precise Characterization of Existentialism
The Liberation of Paris: An Apocalyptic Week
N-Dimensional Sculpture
We Write for Our Own Time
The Historical Process
Nick's Bar, New York City
For a Theater of Situations
Black Presence
The Encounter, or Oedipus and the Sphinx
We Must Have Peace in order to Remake the World
On Being a Writer
Life Begins Tomorrow, a Film by Nicole Vedres
Mad Beasts
Julius Fucik
An Unpublished Act from Nekrassov
Brecht and the Classical Dramatists
Francis Jeanson Interviews Sartre
Soledad, by Colette Audry
The Movies Have Given Us Their First Tragedy, Les Abysses
Determinism and Freedom