On Revolution

On Revolution is Volume 2 of The Seagull Sartre Library, a twelve-volume series of newly designed, affordable editions of essays by Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980). Sartre was a French novelist, playwright and essayist, and he is widely considered one of the twentieth century's major philosophers. The series brings together his philosophical, cultural and literary critical essays.

The volume begins with a long two-part essay in which Sartre reflects on the myth of revolution. He then analyses the revolutionary ideas found in fascism and, above all, in Marxism. In the second essay he turns to the figure of the artist and the artist's conscience, especially as they relate to communism.