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The Sartrean Mind 9781317408161, 1317408160
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THE SARTREAN MIND
Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His influ ence extends beyond academic philosophy to areas as diverse as anti-colonial movements, youth culture, literary criticism, and artistic developments around the world. Beginning with an introduction and biography of Jean-Paul Sartre by Matthew C. Eshleman, 42 chapters by a team of international contributors cover all the major aspects of Sartre’s thought in the following key areas: • • • • • • •
Sartre’s philosophical and historical context Sartre and phenomenology Sartre, existentialism, and ontology Sartre and ethics Sartre and political theory Aesthetics, literature, and biography Sartre’s engagements with other thinkers.
The Sartrean Mind is the most comprehensive collection on Sartre published to date. It is essen tial reading for students and researchers in philosophy, as well as for those in related disciplines where Sartre’s work has continuing importance, such as literature, French studies, and politics. Matthew C. Eshleman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and R
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We Have Solitary This Dulled to Live: The Designated Essays win Jean-Paul Playwright, 1939-1975 9781590174937
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Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905–80) Lewis R. Gordon Sartre’s political thought could be characterized by three elements: (1) his life as a political project and performance, (2) freedom as a challenge of the relationship of ethics to political life, and (3) the historical weight of history and an imposing social world on the task of creating institutions that do not inhibit the development of human potential and relationships. In all, these boil down to the question of political life as an effort to bring the human being to the fore in the human world. Life as Political Project and Performance Jean-Paul-Charles-Aymard Sartre was born in Paris on June 21, 1905. His father Jean-Baptiste Sartre, a sailor who did a tour in Southeast Asia, died within a year of his son’s birth. This event, Jean-Paul later declared in his autobiography Les mots (properly translated, “Words,” (1964)), liberated him from an Oedipal complex. The result was baby Sartre and his mother Anne-Marie Schweitzer’s returning to the home of his maternal grandparents, Charles (“Karl,” to his German friends) and Louise Schweitzer, in Meudon, where they remained till she remarried and moved to Paris. Sartre fell in love with literature during his ten years in his grandparents’ home, where he