Aftermath of War (SB-The French List) [Hardcover]

Jean-Paul Sartre (Author), Chris Turner (Translator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1905422881 | ISBN-13: 978-1905422883 | Publication Date: August 1, 2008

The Aftermath of War brings together essays written in Sartre’s most creative period, just after World War II. Sartre’s extraordinary range of engagement is manifest, with writings on post-war America, the social impact of war in Europe, contemporary philosophy, race, and avant garde art. Carefully structured into sections, the essays range across Sartre’s reflections on collaboration, resistance and liberation in post-war Europe, his thoughts and observations after his extended trip to the USA in 1945, an examination of the failings of philosophical materialism, his analysis of the new revolutionary poetry of ‘negritude’, and his meditations on the visual arts, with essays on the work of Giacometti and Calder, both of whom Sartre knew well.

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About the Author

Jean-Paul Sartre was a novelist, playwright, biographer and undoubtedly one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th Century. The emblematic French thinker of his generation, his hugely influential writings range across philosophy, novels, stories, plays and political pamphlets and include Being and Nothingness, Critique of Dialectical Reason, Nausea, The Words, The Flies and No Exit.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Seagull Books (August 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1905422881
• ISBN-13: 978-1905422883
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,413,879 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Novelist, playwright, and biographer Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) is widely considered one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. His major works include "No Exit," "Nausea," "The Wall," "The Age of Reason," "Critique of Dialectical Reason," "Being and Nothingness," and "Roads to Freedom," an allegory of man's search for commitment, and not, as the man at the off-licence says, an everyday story of French country folk.