Jean-Paul Sartre (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Christine Daigle

By Christine Daigle

A serious determine in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre replaced the process severe suggestion, and claimed a brand new, vital function for the highbrow.

Christine Daigle units Sartre’s idea in context, and considers a couple of key principles intimately, charting their impression and carrying on with effect, including:

• Sartre’s theories of attention, being and freedom as defined in Being and Nothingness and different texts
• the ethics of authenticity and absolute accountability
• concrete kinfolk, sexual relationships and gender distinction, targeting the importance of the alienating glance of the opposite
• the social and political position of the writer
• the legacy of Sartre’s theories and their dating to structuralism and philosophy of brain.

Introducing either literary and philosophical texts through Sartre, this quantity makes Sartre’s rules newly obtainable to scholars of literary and cultural stories in addition to to scholars of continental philosophy and French.

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