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(1986) Steppingstones toward an ethics for fellow existers, Dordrecht, Springer.
All generalizations about existentialism, amorphous as this movement is in its philosophical, literary, and political expressions, are apt to be misleading. But if one limits its circumference to the core of what is sometimes called the Paris group, i.e., Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Francis Jeanson, and most of the staff of Sartre's Les Temps Modernes, one statement about its political line needs no qualification: It is unequivocal in its stand for human equality. This stand is part of the struggle of these existentialists for the liberation of human existence from all types of discrimination and oppression based on class, race, and sex. Thus they have fought "colonialism", old and new, in Vietnam, Madagascar, and Algeria. They have also denounced discrimination in the American South and in totalitarian dictatorships, both fascist and communist.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4337-7_9
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Spiegelberg, H. (1986). Equality in existentialism, in Steppingstones toward an ethics for fellow existers, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 155-174.
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