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Reading Sartre with Victor Hugo 139 whose gestures are more involving than simplistic political activism. <strong>Sartre's</strong> and Hugo's philosophies figure and refigure visionary imagination and rational thought onto one another in a dialectic that must remain engaged with itself if freedom is to survive. They tackle the crisis of how to live in a modern age in which man is, as Marx famously argued, both producer and product of his world. They stress engagement (commitment) as the pursuit of a meaningful and unconditional way of life, but never its firm attainment—a mode of being that is always constructed, never done with. Their massive ceuvres of novels, plays, essays, and political commentaries were not merely self-indulgent exercises of their creative imaginations, nor militant crusades of social action, but a richly tense interaction of the two. To be engaged is to accept a necessary contradiction, and to be caught between independence from ideological agendas and involvement in those same domains. Steve Fuller reminds us: The intellectual, like the superhero, lives in a dualistic universe. [...] For intellectuals and superheroes, social structures are disposable sites for the ongoing struggle between Good and Evil: what embodies Good one week may embody Evil the next. The heroic intellectual never gives up on the chase. 60 A paternal or vertical system of thinking that demands a hierarchy of meaning is turned on its side by the fraternal impulse for both Sartre and Hugo. Here again we have the analogy of the see-saw, whereby any rigidly categorical thinking has to be pushed aside in favour of a more circular mindset that respects the slippage between subject and object. To cite Sartre: "The truth always remains to be discovered, because it is immeasurable; which is not to say that you don't obtain truths in the plural sense." 61 Hence Hugo's succinct aim: "Authority transfigured into freedom." 62 As a result, the Sartre-Hugo dialogue begins to reaffirm the modern French cultural tradition—and, importantly, Sartrean ethics—as a site not of resolution or resignation, but of revolution, in the strictest sense: of a continued engagement with a contingent world. 60 The Intellectual 36-37. 61 "La ventd reste toujours a trouver, parce qu'elle est infinie. Ce qui ne veut pas dire qu'on n'obtienne pas des venteV ("Autoportrait", 148). 62 "L'autorite' transfigure en liberte"' (Le Droit et la hi, 399).
140 Chapter Nine Works Cited Beauvoir, Simone de. La Ceremonie des adieux, suivi de Entretiens avec Jean-Paul Sartre, aout-septembre 1974. Paris: Gallimard, 1981. Benjamin, Walter. Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism (trans. Harry Zohn). London: NLB, 1973. Brombert, Victor. Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel. Harvard University Press, 1984. Chateaubriand, Frangois-Rene' de. Rene (1802). Paris: Gallimard, 1971. Comay, Rebecca. "Benjamin and the Ambiguities of Romanticism", in The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin (ed. David S. Ferris). Cambridge University Press, 2004,134-51. Decker, Michel de. Hugo: Victor pour ces Dames. Paris: Belfond, 2002. Derrida, Jacques. "II courait mort: Salut, salut", Les Temps modernes, 587, Spring 1996,7-54. Farrell Fox, Nicholas. The New Sartre: Explorations in Postmodernism. London: Continuum, 2003. Flaubert, Gustave. Correspondance. Paris: Gallimard, 1975. Fuller, Steve. The Intellectual: The Positive Power of Negative Thinking. Cambridge: Icon, 2005. Grossman, Kathryn. The Early Novels of Victor Hugo: Towards a Poetics of Harmony. Geneva: Librairie Droz SA, 1986. —. "From Classic to Pop Icon: Popularising Hugo", The French Review, vol. 74, no. 3, February 2001,482-95. Gutting, Gary. French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Howells, Christina. Sartre, the Necessity of Freedom. Cambridge University Press, 1988. —. "Introduction", in The Cambridge Companion to Sartre. Cambridge University Press, 1992. Hugo, Victor. GEuvres completes: Critique (ed. Jean-Pierre Reynaud). Paris: Laffont, 1985. —. Le Droit et la hi et autres textes citoyens. Paris: Editions 10/18, 2002. L£vi-Strauss, Claude. La Pensee sauvage. Paris: Plon, 1962. Le\y, Bernard-Henri. Sartre, the Philosopher of the Twentieth Century (trans. Andrew Brown). Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003. Maurel, Jean. Victor Hugo, philosophe. Paris: P.U.F., 1985. Murdoch, Iris. Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953). London: Vintage, 1999. Noudelmann, Francois and Gilles Philippe (eds). Dictionnaire Sartre. Paris: Honord Champion, 2004.
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