SartreanSartrianadj.

1948 P. Mairet tr. J.-P. Sartre Existentialism & Humanism 16 [An] important Sartrean concept—engagement—is here translated as ‘commitment’.

1949 E. L. Mascall Existence & Analogy vi. 126 Given their atheist dogma, the Sartrians are quite right in asserting that existence is absurd, that the world does not make sense.

1951 N. Annan Leslie Stephen viii. 247 In the 'forties Sartrian Existentialism..was a bizarre attempt to justify the duties to society which are inescapably binding upon individuals, who, whether they like it or not, are forced to commit themselves.

1958 Spectator 25 July 141/2 That unique Sartrean blend of intellectual and moral disintegration.

1961 Encounter June 42/2 I cannot claim to be either a Sartrian or a Thomist.

1962 Listener 24 May 920/2 From the Sartrian standpoint, Rousseau went about this enterprise in the wrong way.

1970 J. D. Caute Fanon iii. 35 Fanon's prose reverberates with Sartreian concepts, phrases, dialectical juxtapositions, paradoxes and essentialist abstractions.

1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Probl. xix. 218 Were they both dead, joined in a permanent squabble in some Sartrean hinterland?

1977 New Yorker 16 May 147/1 Soyinka discusses material..with ample cross-references to Greek drama, Nietzschean aesthetics, Jungian philosophy and Sartrean opinionizing.