Repairing the World: Jewish Abstract Expressionists during the Holocaust Era
The philosopher Jean‐Paul Sartre, unquestionably affected by the atrocities of the Holocaust and Hiroshima, publishes an essay in 1946, a year after the war, that rejects the idea of a God. He claims in his essay, “Existence precedes Essence”, that “we”, the existentialists, reject the idea of a God and that man is solely responsible [...]