ANTONIO FERNANDO LONGO VIDAL FILHO

During the context of the immediate post-war, Sartre begins to not only embody the shape of the committed intellectual in an exemplary way, but to also formulate a program and a foundation for the engagement. The understanding of his theses and the discussion about their relevance requires, on the one hand, the reconstruction of the French debate around the intellectual function and of the relation between politics and literature, a debate in which Sartre takes part, altering its course. On the other hand, it is also necessary to unfold some of the underlying premises of his critical, fictional and philosophical work. The issue of commitment arises in the intersection of these two axes. In this work, I seek to formulate this topic. It is divided into four studies: 1) Paul Nizan and the intellectual origins of commitment; 2) The shapes of the intellectual in the young Sartre; 3) Resistance and commitment of the writer; 4) A manifesto of commitment in the post-war