Volume 50 (1995), 10

Has Sartre’s philosophy anything to say to us today?, Is it anything more than a witness of the revolt of the subjectivity against reason?, Did the Sartrian themes become a part of past due to postmodern philosophizing, or could they still offer an alternative resolution of the existential problems of modern humanity?. These are the questions put by the author in… Read more

The paper is an attempt to rethink Sartre’s existential ontology as a relatively closed and consistent philosophical system, consisting of several basic and mutually related premises and concepts. The first group of these concepts (such as appearance of being and being of appearance, being in „itself and „ for itself‘, nothingness) make the background of Sartre’s… Read more

In the second half of the fifties the political situation as well as some literary tendencies gave rise to a new stream in Turkish novel writing called „New literature“ or „The literature of anxiety“. The works of French existentialists J. P. Sartre and A. Camus exerted a considerable impact on the development of this literary stream and on the literary methods… Read more