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Thomas Robert Flynn is an American philosopher. He is currently the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.

Biography
Thomas Flynn was born in 1936 in Spokane, Washington and raised in Anaconda, Montana. He received his B.A. from Carroll College in Helena, Montana in 1958. In 1962, Flynn received a licentiate in theology from the Gregorian University. In 1970, Flynn received his PhD in philosophy from Columbia University under the direction of Robert Denoon Cumming.

After receiving his doctorate, Flynn returned to teach at Carroll College before becoming an assistant professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America. In 1978, Flynn became assistant professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Flynn became Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy in 1988.

Flynn has also been a visiting professor at Villanova University and Philipps Universität in Marburg, Germany.

Flynn's research focuses on twentieth century continental philosophy, the philosophy of history, political and social philosophy, and ethics. Flynn is a renowned scholar of the work of [|Jean-Paul Sartre] and [|Michel Foucault].

Existentialism and Social/Political Philosophy
Flynn has made substantial contributions in the history of twentieth century French philosophy. In his first book, Sartre and Marxist Existentialism: The Test Case of Collective Responsibility, he argues that Sartrean existentialism, which is typically viewed as a solipsistic, individualist philosophy in fact has the ingredients of a revolutionary social philosophy. Therein Flynn shows both that Sartre was from the beginning concerned with matters of a social and political sort and that, contrary to much scholarly opinion, there is not a substantial break between Sartre's vintage existentialism and his later Marxist-inspired thought.

Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason
He has authored five monographs including Sartre and Marxist Existentialism: The Test Case of Collective Responsibility, Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason Volume One: Toward and Existentialist Theory of History, Volume Two: A Poststructuralist Mapping of History, Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction, and Sartre: A Philosophical Biography. In addition, he has edited three volumes including Dialectic and Narrative, The Ethics of History, and Über Sartre: Perspektiven und Kritiken. Flynn is the author of over 100 scholarly articles.