The unity of life and work: outline of Sartre's development. The writer and his situation ; Philosophy, literature, and myth ; From "The legend of truth" to a "true legend": phases of Sartre's development -- Search for freedom. Search for the individual : the early works ; Freedom and passion : the work of Being and nothingness ; A note on Being and nothingness -- The challenge of history. Material and formal structures of history: critique of Sartre's conception of dialectical reason and historical totalization ; Lévi-Strauss against Sartre ; The role of scarcity in historical conceptions ; The mission dimension