ABSTRACT
Sartre’s anthropology, his concern with concrete human beings and their reality, the problem of rationality, social theory, the intelligibility of history and the grounds of concrete morality can be characterised as a comprehensive concern with the present. A further motivation is Sartre’s philosophical outlook is deeply characterised by the synthetic, relational and non-reductionist imperative to connect different problems and domains: individual and history, epistemology and ethics, ontology and everyday life, historical intelligibility and action, etc. The phrase ‘a hermeneutics of praxis’ appears to be a contradiction in terms: ‘hermeneutics’ is most often used to connote ‘belongingness to the world’ and ‘inherent linguisticality and culturally’ (culturalism), and ‘praxis’ to connote ‘the surpassing of this belongingness’ and ‘individual freedom’ (existentialism). Thus, the hermeneutical dimension, or hermeneutisation, of Sartre’s philosophical standpoint consists mainly in this focus on the bonds of anteriority of freedom and praxis.
