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The review of Jean-Paul Sartre's Existential Psychology (This QUARTERLY, Volume XXIV, No. 1, 1955, p. 137) … does an injustice to readers who may … think
there is nothing in Sartre's work of very serious interest to them… Whether or not one agrees with or is even generally sympathetic toward Sartre's kind of philosophical approach, I think that an examination of his major work, L'Être et le néant … reveals a serious philosophical intellect, engaging problems which are deeply rooted in the history of philosophy … [as your reviewer states, these essays are fragments of Sartre's treatise]. As fragments these essays not only are out of philosophical context but are reversed in their order of appearance… One the basis of a serious inquiry into Sartre's philosophy, it is my view that there is much of crucial importance in his contributions for the professional audience you reach.