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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Ignorance, if Sartre is correct, is an intentional act, a means of avoiding the truth through sheer indifference or an act of will. Freedom is achieved through hard work and choice--both anathema to the willfully ignorant--declares the French existentialist in this short, coherent philosophical tract, written in 1948 and published only now. To prove that ignorance is bad faith, Sartre uses the example of a tubercular woman who denies her illness, pretending to be controlled by destiny yet at the same time preoccupied with the suppressed truth. Other forms of bad faith explored here are passive contemplation, innocence and abstract knowledge divorced from living reality. Accompanied by an excellent introduction, this dense, lucidly translated treatise reveals Sartre as a characteristically 20th-century figure. Van den Hoven is a professor of French at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Aronson a humanities professor at Wayne State in Michigan.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Although written in 1948 on the heels of Being and Nothingness , this work remained unpublished until, posthumously, Sartre's adopted daughter saw it into print in France in 1989. Her arrangement of Sartre's manuscript pages has been translated here, including the notes Sartre added to his draft. Editor Aronson's introduction is an important element of the work for contemporary readers because it places Sartre's explication of truth within his developing philosophy. In spite of this work's brevity, Sartre's delineation of truth as the antithesis of willful ignorance is dense and demanding. A necessary and welcome addition to all humanities collections, it will interest scholars of the 20th century as well as philosophers.
- Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Ignorance, if Sartre is correct, is an intentional act, a means of avoiding the truth through sheer indifference or an act of will. Freedom is achieved through hard work and choice--both anathema to the willfully ignorant--declares the French existentialist in this short, coherent philosophical tract, written in 1948 and published only now. To prove that ignorance is bad faith, Sartre uses the example of a tubercular woman who denies her illness, pretending to be controlled by destiny yet at the same time preoccupied with the suppressed truth. Other forms of bad faith explored here are passive contemplation, innocence and abstract knowledge divorced from living reality. Accompanied by an excellent introduction, this dense, lucidly translated treatise reveals Sartre as a characteristically 20th-century figure. Van den Hoven is a professor of French at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Aronson a humanities professor at Wayne State in Michigan.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Although written in 1948 on the heels of Being and Nothingness , this work remained unpublished until, posthumously, Sartre's adopted daughter saw it into print in France in 1989. Her arrangement of Sartre's manuscript pages has been translated here, including the notes Sartre added to his draft. Editor Aronson's introduction is an important element of the work for contemporary readers because it places Sartre's explication of truth within his developing philosophy. In spite of this work's brevity, Sartre's delineation of truth as the antithesis of willful ignorance is dense and demanding. A necessary and welcome addition to all humanities collections, it will interest scholars of the 20th century as well as philosophers.
- Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
See all Editorial Reviews
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