Grand old leftie gone and forgotten?

'Is Sartre remotely relevant today? As political visionaries, two of his contemporary critics, the novelist Albert Camus and the sociologist Raymond Aron, stand taller because their view of freedom was untainted by association with Stalinism or Maoism. And outside France, Sartre is certainly read less than his own muse, Simone de Beauvoir, whose book "The Second Sex" is a founding text of feminism.' More here. The French National Library has a big Sartre exhibition on now in Paris. Funny how this man, who feared becoming an institution, was nothing but. His autobiography, "Words," is great.