7.  Bad Faith and Cultural Values
Channel: Rethinking Existentialism
Date: 2016-02-09

Jonathan Webber argues that Sartre's first attempt to devise an existentialist cultural theory rests on his idea that bad faith is a widespread attitude, but his initial form of existentialism rules out any possible explanation of why it is widespread. It is perhaps due to this defect that Sartre soon abandons his initial variety of existentialism in favour of embracing Beauvoir's variety, which can gound a cultural theory without requiring any such unexplainable coincidence.

A film of the Rethinking Existentialism project. Recorded 20 January 2016. http://bit.ly/RethinkingExistentialism