"He was a generous and courageous man. He always defended the cause of the unfortunate, of the exploited, and of the oppressed. He always struggled for freedom, most often with the communists and, if necessary, against them. He believed in the strength of reason and in the contagious power of the idea of freedom. But above all, for me and I have said it several times, he was our Jean-Jacques Rousseau."
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Louis Althusser, "Our Jean-Jacques Rousseau", Originally published in Le Monde, April 17, 1980. Translated by Emily Guigno, Telos (1980)
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Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 – 1980
französischer Philosoph und Schriftsteller
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