Author: Gail Linsenbard
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847065287
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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Author: Donald D. Palmer
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN: 1939994217
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Sartre For Beginners is an accessible yet sophisticated introduction to the life and works of the famous French philosopher, Jean Paul Sartre. Sartre was a member of the French underground during WWII, a novelist, a playwright, and a major influence in French political and intellectual life. The book opens with a biographical section, introducing the significant events in the life of the man who coined the term “existentialism.” Then it examines Sartre’s early philosophical works. Ideas from Sartre’s other fictional and dramatic works are discussed, but the greatest part is the presentation of the main concepts from Sartre’s Being and Nothingness (1943). These include the topics of consciousness, freedom, responsibility, absurdity, “bad faith,” authenticity, and the hellish confrontation with other people. Finally, the book deals with Sartre’s modification of his early existentialism to compliment his conversion to a kind of “existential” Marxism. Sartre For Beginners summarizes the work of the most renown philosopher of the 20th Century.

Author: Philip Thody
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1840469242
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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INTRODUCING guide to the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy's most famous characters. Jean-Paul Sartre was once described as being, next to Charles de Gaulle, the most famous Frenchman of the 20th century. Between the ending of the Second World War in 1945 and his death in 1980, Sartre was certainly the most famous French writer, as well as one of the best-known living philosophers. Introducing Sartre explains the basic ideas inspiring his world view, and pays particular attention to his idea of freedom. It also places his thinking on literature in the context of the 20th century debate on its nature and function. It examines his ideas on Marxism, his enthusiasm for the student rebellion of 1968, and his support for movements of national liberation in the Third World. The book also provides a succinct account of his life, and especially of the impact which his unusual childhood had on his attitude towards French society.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809015455
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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The Transcendence of the Ego may be regarded as a turning-point in the philosophical development of Jean-Paul Sartre. Prior to the writing of this essay, published in France in 1937, Sartre had been intimately acquainted with the phenomenological movement which originated in Germany with Edmund Husserl. It is a fundamental tenet of Husserl, the notion of a transcendent ego, which is here attacked by Sartre. This disagreement with Husserl has great importance for Sartre and facilitated the transition from phenomenology to the doctrine of Being and Nothingness.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0394704649
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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From one of the 20th century’s most profound philosophers and writers, comes a thought provoking essay that seeks to reconcile Marxism with existentialism. Exploring the complicated relationship the two philosophical schools of thought have with one another, Sartre supposes that the two are in fact compatible and complimentary towards one another, with poignant analysis and reasoning. An important work of modern philosophy, Search for a Method has a major influence on the current perceptions of existentialism and Marxism. “This is the most important philosophical work by Sartre to be translated since Being and Nothingness.”—James Collings, America

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671867806
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 869

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Sartre explains the theory of existential psychoanalysis in this treatise on human reality.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679738954
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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The middle-aged protagonist of Sartre's philosophical novel, set in 1938, refuses to give up his ideas of freedom, despite the approach of the war

Author: Jonathan Webber
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113691806X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Reading Sartre is an indispensable resource for students of phenomenology, existentialism, ethics and aesthetics, and anyone interested in the relationship between phenomenology and analytic philosophy. Specially commissioned chapters examine Sartre’s achievements, and consider his importance to contemporary philosophy.

Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504054210
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom. In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French contemporaries, philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by arguing that the freedoms in existentialism carry with them certain ethical responsibilities. De Beauvoir outlines a series of “ways of being” (the adventurer, the passionate person, the lover, the artist, and the intellectual), each of which overcomes the former’s deficiencies, and therefore can live up to the responsibilities of freedom. Ultimately, de Beauvoir argues that in order to achieve true freedom, one must battle against the choices and activities of those who suppress it. The Ethics of Ambiguity is the book that launched Simone de Beauvoir’s feminist and existential philosophy. It remains a concise yet thorough examination of existence and what it means to be human.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415526005
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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First published in Great Britain in 1968, this is an authoritative introduction to the life of one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Prompted by the belief that none of the parts of Sartree(tm)s work is fully intelligible apart from the whole , this ambitious volume attempts to provide a synoptic view of Sartree(tm)s oeuvre in its entirety. The editor, Robert Denoon Cumming, has organised the work around certain concepts which are central to Sartrian thought, notably Consciousness in its relation to Being, to e~the Othere(tm), to Art, Literature, History and Society. The reader can see for himself how Sartree(tm)s aesthetic and highly individual existentialism of La Nause is systematically transformed into the neo-Marxist sociological theory of his Critique de la Raison dialectique. By a skilful process of editing, Professor Cumming has provided an authoritative introduction to the life of one of the greatest intellectual figures of modern times.