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Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
"'How are you?' said Mathieu. 'I thought you were dead.'" Following a Parisian philosophy teacher through the caf s and bars of Montparnasse over two days in the sweltering summer of 1938, Sartre's searing novel explores what it truly means to be free.
Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Born in Paris in 1905, Sartre was a professor of philosophy when he joined the French Army at the outbreak of World War II. Captured by the Germans, he was released, after nearly a year, in 1941. He immediately joined the French resistance as a journalist. In the postwar era Jean-Paul Sartre - philosoph ...Show more
Colonialism and Neocolonialism by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre's writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable intellect relentlessly to bear on his own country's co ...Show more
Critique of Dialectical Reason: The Complete Edition by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Sartre's intellectual masterpiece with an introduction by Fredric Jameson At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result was the Critique of Dialectical Reason, an intellectual masterpiece of the twentiet ...Show more
Existential Psychoanalysis by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In Existential Psychoanalysis, Sartre criticizes modern psychology in general, and Freud's determinism in particular. His often brilliant analysis of these areas and his proposals for their correction indicate in what direction an existential psychoanalysis might be developed. Sartre does all this on t ...Show more
Existentialism is a Humanism by SARTRE JEAN PAUL
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture ("Existentialism Is a Humanism") was to expound his philosophy as a form of "existentialism," a term much band ...Show more
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, "Nausea" is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition is translated from the French by Robert Baldick with an introd ...Show more
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, La ...Show more
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Fiction
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle ...Show more
Politics and Literature by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Fiction
First published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartre's most enduring concerns as a philosopher: politics and literature. With regard to the former, they develop the notion of the intellectual not only as an aloof theoretician, but also ...Show more
The Age of Reason: Popular Penguins by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reasonfollows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in t ...Show more
The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Classics
First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre's first and only collection of short fiction. The title piece tells the story of a prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, on the eve of his execution by a firing squad, who is told he wi ...Show more