This is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date surveys of the philosophy of Sartre, by some of the foremost interpreters in the United States and Europe. The essays are both expository and original, and cover Sartre's writings on ontology, phenomenology, psychology, ethics, and aesthetics, as well as his work on history, commitment, and progress; a final section considers Sartre's relationship to structuralism and deconstruction. Providing a balanced view of Sartre's philosophy and situating it in relation to contemporary trends in Continental philosophy, the volume shows that many of the topics associated with Lacan, Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, and Derrida are to be found in the work of Sartre, in some cases as early as 1936. A special feature of the volume is the treatment of the recently published and hitherto little studied posthumous works. Thus new readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Sartre currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Sartre.
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"...if these essays show anything, it is that Sartre's thinking achieves a level of richness and complexity, and of subtlety and attention to nuance, that is not captured in the popular (and quite accessible) caricature of him as a rip-roaring, nihilistic existentialist, who popularized simplistic clichés about absurdity, meaninglessness, anguish, and despair, and who advocated an extreme and utterly unrealistic theory of freedom and responsibility. The authors and editor are to be commended, not only for effectively countering this mistaken impression, and for replacing it with something both more accurate and more interesting, but also for doing so without excessive apologetics." Ethics
"It is good...to see within the broad scope of this [book] that Being and Nothingness has been accorded a fresh look and that the enduring fertility and influence of Sartre's ideas have been re-established." Philosophical Books
"...for those with some interest in his thought already, the book is well worth dipping into where the essays address topics of interest-- and those with a deeper interest in Sartre will want to read it from cover to cover. It certainly is a volume that belongs in every library collection, both graduate and undergraduate." Canadian Philosophical Review
"It is good...to see within the broad scope of this [book] that Being and Nothingness has been accorded a fresh look and that the enduring fertility and influence of Sartre's ideas have been re-established." Philosophical Books
"...for those with some interest in his thought already, the book is well worth dipping into where the essays address topics of interest-- and those with a deeper interest in Sartre will want to read it from cover to cover. It certainly is a volume that belongs in every library collection, both graduate and undergraduate." Canadian Philosophical Review
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Providing a balanced view of Sartre's philosophy in relation to contemporary trends in Continental philosophy, this volume shows that many of the topics associated with Lacan, Foucault, Levi-Strauss, and Derrida are to be found in the work of Sartre, in some cases as early as 1936.
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New York, Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason, Saint Genet, The Transcendence of the Ego, The Family Idiot, Sartrean Structuralism, Madame Bovary, Raymond Aron, Saint Julien, War Diaries, Alan Sheridan-Smith, Bernard Frechtman, University of Chicago Press, New Left Books, Cambridge University Press, Second Empire, First World War, Les Écrits de Sartre, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Hazel Barnes, The Words, Les Mots, Roland Barthes, Heidegger's Dasein Browse Sample Pages:
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Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, dialectic cogito, enveloping totalization, organic praxis, surrounding materiality, nonpositional consciousness, eidetic analysis, practical organism, esprit objectif, ethical radicalism, individual praxis, homme historique, family idiot, committed writer, reflective memory, pour une morale, dialectical reason, intentional reference, impersonal consciousness, raison dialectique, transcendental field, intentional analysis, transcendental consciousness, existentialist theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason, Saint Genet, The Transcendence of the Ego, The Family Idiot, Sartrean Structuralism, Madame Bovary, Raymond Aron, Saint Julien, War Diaries, Alan Sheridan-Smith, Bernard Frechtman, University of Chicago Press, New Left Books, Cambridge University Press, Second Empire, First World War, Les Écrits de Sartre, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Hazel Barnes, The Words, Les Mots, Roland Barthes, Heidegger's Dasein Browse Sample Pages:
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- Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics (Key Contemporary Thinkers) by Christina Howells in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Claudia Card on page 106, and Back Matter
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