MARCUSE LETTORE DE L’ÊTRE ET LE NÉANT DI SARTRE
MARCUSE READER OF SARTRE'S BEING AND NOTHINGNESS

Summary/Abstract: In this article I analyze the Marcusian critique to the famous book of Sartre L’Être et le Néant (1943), appeared (in 1948) in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. In his review on the book of Sartre, Marcuse doesn’t deny some points of contact between him and the French thinker. However, Marcuse harshly criticizes the Sartrean Existentialism that, for the philosopher of Frankfurt, turns historical-materialistic elements in ontological ones, because of a wrong use of the philosophy of Hegel and Heidegger, and overlaps the individualistic level with the social one, loosing so the extremely important differentiation between them. The aftermath of this Sartrean lack of philosophical rigor is, for Marcuse, the confusion about, or even the loosing of, the realistic possibilities to change the concrete human condition.

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