Thomas R. Flynn is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He is the author of many articles and books, including Sartre and Marxist Existentialism: The Test Case of Collective Responsibility (1984), Sartre, Foucault and Historical Reason, Volume 1: Toward an Existentialist Theory of History (1997) and Volume 2: A Poststructuralist Mapping of History (2005), and Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction (2006).