Sartre’s model has each generation interiorize and recreate the past, unlike Marxism’s external succession.

Evidence

Sartre was the bridge to all the traditions that he plundered, modernised, personalised and reinvented. Yet he insisted all his life that what mattered was not the past at all: it was the future. One must keep moving, creating what will be: acting in the world and making a difference to it. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 76 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

Related

• Existentialism prizes future-oriented action over inherited tradition (similarity 0.88)
• Sartre’s philosophy prioritized the future over inheritance from the past. (similarity 0.82)
• Sartre’s trajectory is continuous evolution, not rupture, shaped by Beauvoir. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Sartre’s philosophy prioritized the future over inheritance from the past. #qualifies (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 76