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Apostles of Sartre: Existentialism in America, 1945-1963

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This is a smart analysis of the introduction of Sartre's ideas into the American academy. Fulton sketches clearly three stages in the reception. She demonstrates how, after initial attempts to ignore Sartrean existentialism, philosophers in America were forced to examine his work. Often, the reception of Sartre was conditioned by the state of American philosophy (at this time its mania for analytic and the Cold War situation). Fulton also indicates how existentialism resonated particularly strongly with women philosophers, and how the slow translation process of Sartre's key works were part of the reception of Sartre. This book will be useful for any reader interested in the reception of existentialism in the US and for the history of philosophy in the United States after the Second World War.

A fair review of continental and existential thought within the united states. Lacks the foundational precepts that allowed for the rise of influential thinkers of modern existential philosophy... such as Lesiu Niemoczynski, Melissa Anders, and friends from the East Stroudsburg University and Northampton academic circles.