Was Sartre a Stalinist?

This book offers a political defence of Sartre and shows how, from a relatively apolitical stance in the 1930s, Sartre became increasingly involved in the politics of the Left; though he always distrusted Stalinism, he was sometimes driven to ally himself with it because of the force of its argument.

What kind of philosopher was Sartre?

Jean-Paul Sartre was a French novelist, playwright, and philosopher. A leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy, he was an exponent of a philosophy of existence known as existentialism. His most notable works included Nausea (1938), Being and Nothingness (1943), and Existentialism and Humanism (1946).

Is Sartre a postmodernist?

Dominant strains of modernity are present in Being and Nothingness in the influences of Descartes and Husserl, the cogito tradition, but Sartre manages to turn them in a postmodern direction with his notion of neant (difference).