In our search for human conditions, we continue our zig-zag journey through philosophical history.

Today we are slightly deviating from the format in discussing three thinkers: Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault. Sartre wrote a play in 1944 called Huis clos which depicted hell as a house with three people in it, who constantly interrupt one another — that’s hell, for him.

So let us enter this hell: we begin with the two existentialists in the first half and go on to Foucault in the second.

Allons-y!