Italy, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Europe s Cold War

Based on extensive, largely unpublished material by and about Sartre from archives across Europe, this book explores Sartre''s lifelong relationship with Italy, its culture, society and, above all, its intellectual left.

Starting with his dawning awareness of politics as foremost a moral responsibility during his first tourist trips to Naples in the 1930s and the poverty he encountered there, Ita...