Sartre under German occupation
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Sartre claimed the French were most free under German occupation because they had to make radical, life-risking choices, unlike the comfortable liberty of peacetime.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 4
“Never were we, French people, more free than under the German occupation.”
“we were more free than ever. because precisely we didn't have any social order on which to rely everything was risky”
“His movement is quick and forward, a little too precise, a little too rapid.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
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alongside works
Every retelling 5
Sartre claimed the French were most free under German occupation because they had to make radical, life-risking choices, unlike the comfortable liberty of peacetime., illustrating freedom vs. liberty,concrete freedom
Sartre claimed that under German occupation, they were 'more free than ever' because there was no social order to rely on, forcing them to take the risk of stepping into the abyss and changing the rules., illustrating abstract freedom,revolution-violence
Sartre's waiter performs the gestures of a waiter with exaggerated theatricality, which paradoxically signals his distance from the role and asserts his subjectivity; this over-doing is the very mechanism of true non-identification., illustrating over-identification,mauvaise foi (bad faith),simulacrum versus symbolic appearance,performative power
~35:10 Slavoj Žižek on Marx, Hegel, Politics, Films, Burgers and Hot Dogs… and a lot more!2021 · 1:47:20
Sartre wrote that under German occupation, the French had no concrete freedom but were more free than ever, because the order was imposed, not their own, giving them a radical abstract freedom., illustrating abstract freedom,dark freedom
Žižek quotes Sartre’s claim that people were 'never more free than under German occupation' because they were forced to make radical decisions about their survival and identity, not just minor social choices., illustrating true freedom is choosing yourself,Hegel