Intellectuals and the division of labour

[robert scheetz]

Subject: Re: INTELLECTUALS & THE DIVISION OF LABOR--SARTRE ET AL

... in my years of credulity, Roquentin 
conjured a compelling perspective...which in recollection
still seems not inapposite...so I have to enter a demurrer.  In this
spirit one is reminded that the Enlightenment, the physical and social
sciences, leads, not to Humanism, Liberty, and the brotherhood of man,
but, to the brave-new-world, nihilism,... Dolly?

Sartre saw, and grappled with, the notion that
the liberation is dialectical, requiring
as well onto-theology (of Heidegger) as the critical theory
of Marx.  If his praxis was mostly fatuous (the human condition),
the attempt, in conception and intent, was unique, authentic
and heroic.  He left an example against,  and pointed a possible path out of,
 the Nihil, and...should be canonized.

Bob Scheetz