Our Journal

Published by Berghahn Books, Sartre Studies International has the aim to become the focus of an international reassessment of the relevance and validity of Sartrean ideals and aspirations to a contemporary world that seems disturbingly far from them. It will act as the principal forum in the English-speaking world for debates on Sartre as well as Sartrean studies—theoretical, literary and political projects inspired by Sartre. It will publish articles of a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural and international character reflecting the full range and complexity of Sartre’s own interests.

We invite articles on Sartre, reinterpretations of his work, close textual analyses, readings of recently published works, comparisons of Sartre and other writers, and critiques of Sartre’s thought. We also invite political, literary, philosophical and biographical essays motivated by Sartre, which use his thought as well as other intellectual tools, to explore the meanings of our culture and social life.

In particular, the journal will give prominence to the views of the leading Sartre specialists in the world today, and will assess the significance of Sartre’s philosophical, political, literary and cultural ideas to the 1990s and beyond. It will seek to extend and enrich the debate on Sartrean ideas through comparative analysis with other major contemporary intellectual figures. The journal will also bring to the attention of an English-speaking readership previously untranslated work on Sartre, and highlight the achievements of writers and intellectuals influenced by his seminal ideas. In addition, each number of the journal will contain reviews of recently published books devoted to Sartrean studies and a Notice board of recent and forthcoming events such as conferences, publications and media broadcasts linked to Sartre’s life, work and intellectual legacy.