I dug up an interesting article on Sartre from Slate.com, "Exit, Pursued by a Lobster": http://slate.msn.com/id/2088648/ It talks about the checkered history of Sartre's philosophy. He has had his ups and downs in popularity. He has especially been criticized for his support of Stalin and Mao. Today our elites have an obsession with "democracy." The article also mentions his experiments with mescaline: "If you combined aspects of Bertrand Russell, Arthur Miller, Noam Chomsky, Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, and Mick Jagger, you might get something approximating Sartre. (Come to think of it, you'd have to toss in Timothy Leary because of Sartre's experiments with mescaline, which left the philosophe with the recurrent fear that he was being pursued by a lobster.)"
I think I remember reading somewhere that he also traveled together with Che's group in Bolivia. Is that true? What are the most famous and widely read works of Jean-Paul Satre?
