Becker’s maximization model resembles Sartrean freedom in its total responsibility

Evidence

But Becker’s calculations (and the word does not at all in him imply homo economicus, but rather very much unreflective, everyday, “preconscious” behavior of all kinds) belong in that mainstream; indeed, the system makes me think more than anything else of Sartrean freedom insofar as it implies a responsibility for everything we do — Sartrean choice (which, of course, in the same way takes place on a non-self-conscious everyday behavioral level) means the individual or collective production at every moment of Becker’s “commodities” (which need not be hedonistic in any narrow sense, altruism being, for example, just such a commodity or pleasure). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 590

Categorization

• XREF: The reader’s own cognitive map parallels Sartrean total responsibility — connects to We (Zamyatin) and to the reader’s position in the world system. — connects to: Sartre novelized existential freedom through collective crisis in The Reprieve — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 403
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Sartre novelized existential freedom through collective crisis in The Reprieve — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 403