{"id":12350,"date":"2009-10-05T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/05\/how-sartre-saw-the-usa\/"},"modified":"2009-10-05T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T15:00:47","slug":"how-sartre-saw-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/05\/how-sartre-saw-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sartre Saw the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Jean-Paul Sartre&#39;s <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc.mhtml?i=19471018&amp;s=sartre\"><font color=\"#810081\" face=\"Georgia\">&quot;Americans and Their Myths&quot;<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> appeared in <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The Nation<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> in the issue of 18 October, 1947. The article concludes:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The anguish of the American confronted with Americanism is an ambivalent anguish; as if he were asking, &quot;Am I American enough?&quot; and at the same time, &quot;How can I escape from Americanism?&quot; In America a man&#39;s simultaneous answers to these two questions make him what he is, and each man must find his own answers.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">It sounds like projection to me. Anguish? Ambivalence? Had I been able to drag Jean-Paul&#39;s sorrily citified Parisian ass away from his cafes, Gauloises, and Stalinist comrades and through the Superstition Mountains in June \u2014 well, perhaps the univocity of rock and sun and the reality of a world that is not man-made but also not a featureless surd-like <em>en soi<\/em> would have cured his anguished ambiguity.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Paul Sartre&#39;s &quot;Americans and Their Myths&quot; appeared in The Nation in the issue of 18 October, 1947. The article concludes: The anguish of the American confronted with Americanism is an ambivalent anguish; as if he were asking, &quot;Am I American enough?&quot; and at the same time, &quot;How can I escape from Americanism?&quot; In America a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/05\/how-sartre-saw-the-usa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Sartre Saw the USA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,56,357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existentialism","category-politics","category-sartre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}