Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir weren’t just the reigning power couple of existentialist philosophers—they were also dedicated activists, railing against the Vietnam War, abuses in the Soviet Union, and, perhaps surprisingly, anti-Semitism. Sartre and de Beauvoir traveled to Israel in 1967, months before the outbreak of the Six-Day War. There they were greeted by […]
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