Jean-Paul Sartre
Price: $95.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-43564-2
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 31st May 2009 (Available for Pre-order)
- Pages: 160
About the Book
As the founding figure of the movement known as ‘existentialism’, Jean-Paul Sartre was a key figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, whose writings changed the course of critical thought.
Christine Daigle sets Sartre’s thought in context, and considers a number of key ideas in detail, charting their impact and continuing influence, including:
- consciousness and being
- freedom
- interpersonal relationships
- the human condition
- committed literature
- politics.
Introducing both literary and philosophical texts by Sartre, this volume makes Sartre’s ideas newly accessible to students of literary and cultural studies as well as to students of continental philosophy and French.
Table of Contents
Why Sartre? Key Ideas 1. Consciousness 2. Being 3. Freedom 4. Authenticity 5. Interpersonal relations 6. The human condition 7. Committed literature 8. Politics After Sartre Further Reading
About the Author(s)
Christine Daigle is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies at Brock University (Ontario, Canada). She is the President of NASS (North American Sartre Society, author of Le nihilisme est-il un humanisme: Étude sur Nietzsche et Sartre (PUL, 2005) and editor of Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics (MQUP, 2006).