JEAN-PAUL SARTRE ET LE PASSAGE AU STRUCTURALISME
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE AND THE TRANSITION TO STRUCTURALISM

Summary/Abstract: Every real philosophy should grasp that which is specifically human. According to Sartre’s first, existentialist solution the individual can turn into a member of mankind only directly. Therefore in his „phenomenological” period concrete man is expressed by the absolute character of nonreflective consciousness. In the main opus of his second period (Critique of Dialectical Reason) this role can be attributed to the so-called personal project, while he recognizes the significance and, what is more, the necessity of „mediations and auxiliary sciences” (linguistics, sociology, psychoanalysis etc.). According to his conception the original „humanism” of existentialism, complemented by the methods and results of „auxiliary sciences” (that is to say, the new „structuralist human sciences”), can turn into the real anthropology of our time.

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