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That human freedom can be rediscovered after the experience of all that has been forced upon man, came from Sartre as a message of hope for a generation grown up beneath the fatalities of our century, and no longer convinced by the humanism of eloquence — even if it took the form of a glorification of human rights. This new philosophy was above all the power of speech returned to those who had lost it amidst the rhetoric into which great projects vanish. The Jewish sensibility was particularly moved by the fact that this freedom never turned into the evocation of some outdated and pagan myths linked to the ideal of personal salvation

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