"Sartre's thoughts on history and his writings about the past are very often provoking. They frequently challenge deep rooted assumptions, prevailing superficial ways of thinking, and accepted norms. (...) Sartre's insights often demand a rethinking of my relationship to specific events in the past, and a reassessment of my attitude to the field of history, be it defined as a story, a science, or a collective memory"

- Haim Gordon and Rivca Gordon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Source: Gordon, Haim and Riva Gordon. 1998. Sartre On Our Responsibility For Dead Lives: Implications For Teaching History. Paper for the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, in Boston, Massachusetts August 10-15, 1998. The Paidea Archive. Available online from URL: http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Hist/HistGord.htm [Downloaded 2010-05-26]