The religious question at the heart of the Sartrean aesthetic

In Les Mots, Jean-Paul Sartre places the religious quarrel between Protestantism and Catholicism at the heart of his existential journey and his vocation as a writer. This article proposes a re-reading of Sartre’s work through the prism of a fundamental tension between the Catholic ethos and the Protestant ethos. The Sartrean project, which seeks to resolve this tension, interrogates the notion of secularization and thus invites us to rethink the relationship between religion and modernity.