Freedom as an act of liberation: engagement and political action in the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre
situated freedom, practical-inert field, seriality, serial impotence, group
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that there is in Jean-Paul Sartre's thought its own conception of political action. The elaboration of his phenomenological ontology essay led the existentialist philosopher to conclude that the human being is condemned to be free, insofar as freedom derives from the nadifying function of consciousness, which is movement and indeterminacy. Without any substance, consciousness only exists in a related way, it is always consciousness of something, and therefore freedom, for Sartre, is unequivocally situated. In this context, this work aims to explore Sartre's criticism of voting and indirect democracy, manifested in the article "Eléctions, piège à cons" (1973), starting from the deepening of central ideas for his philosophy, such as situated freedom, practical-inert field, seriality, serial impotence and group. The aim is to retrace, within the limits that the format allows, the path of situated freedom as a human condition also in sociability and history, as an act of liberation, as political action.