Friday, March 14, 2014

Sartre and Camus in New York - NYTimes.com

Sartre and Camus in New York - NYTimes.com3
 

America is hyper-normative, producing citizen clones Sartre

In any case, their construction required a faith that we no longer have.” The Chrysler and the Empire State already appear to Sartre like ancient ruins.


“After so many months I know nothing about New York.” Camus

(pre-)post-structuralist in his greater concern and anxiety about language, his emphasis on difference and refusal to articulate a clear-cut theory: “I am too young to have a system,” he told one audience. And it is this anti-systematic aspect of America that he retains and refuses to clarify:

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