Sartre praised oppressed people’s violence as Nietzschean self-creation.
Evidence
In his contribution, Sartre endorsed Fanon’s view so enthusiastically that he outdid the original, shifting the emphasis so as to praise violence for its own sake. Sartre seemed to see the violence of the oppressed as a Nietzschean act of self-creation. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 869
Categorization
- XREF: Deepens the Nietzschean thread running through existentialism, and connects to the earlier ‘Black Orpheus’ discussion in this same chapter. — connects to: A new post-1970s left intellectual combined Third World rhetoric with anticommunism and Nietzschean post-structuralism — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 791