Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus: Deontological individualism or individualistic individualism?

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the implications that the word individualism contained in the existentialisms of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. With this objective, it is intended to unmask Sartre's philosophy as a deontologism just as de-subjectivized as any collectivist doctrine, as well as to postulate Camus's individualism as that doctrine that dared to take charge of the repercussions of that axiom from which both existentialisms began and only he dared to explode: existence precedes essence.