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Being and Nothingness

Being and Nothingness

Jean-Paul Sartre

Sartre explains the theory of existential psychoanalysis in this treatise on human reality
French Twentieth Bibliography: Critical and Biographical ...

French Twentieth Bibliography: Critical and Biographical ...

Douglas W. Alden

Lecarme, Jacques: "Sartre et Céline: deux violents dans le siècle," Magazine Littéraire, no. 282 (nov. 1990) ... Ledgerwood, Mikle D. : "Sartre: The Necessity of Freedom. ... N8372. Natanson, Maurice: "Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophy of freedom.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Gives a brief bio, discusses his philosophy and then critically evaluates his fiction and drama.
Ontology and Ethics in Sartre's Early Philosophy

Ontology and Ethics in Sartre's Early Philosophy

Yiwei Zheng

In his book Freedom as a Value: A Critique of the Ethical Theory of Jean-Paul Sartre,7 David Detmer adopted a better approach. Detmer distinguished two sorts of freedom: "practical freedom" and "ontological freedom."8 Practical freedom is ...
Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love

Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love

Andrew Shaffer

This book shows that a genius in the realm of thought can be a dummy in the land of love.” — Tom Morris, author of If Aristotle Ran General Motors What do René Descartes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jean-Paul Sartre have in ...
Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography

Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography

Deirdre Bair

Chronicles the life of the French writer, examining her roles as author, philosopher, feminist, and companion to Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism

Existentialism

Richard Gravil

After an Introduction examining the historical moment of Existentialism, as a product of wartime discipline and consciousness, this book sets out the thinking of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Martin ...
The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857

The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857

Jean-Paul Sartre

With this volume, the University of Chicago Press completes its translation of a work that is indispensable not only to serious readers of Flaubert but to anyone interested in the last major contribution by one of the twentieth century's ...
The Booklover's Guide to the Midwest: A Literary Tour

The Booklover's Guide to the Midwest: A Literary Tour

Greg Holden

Algren was madly in love with the French writer, who was still married to the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre; he dreamed of one day marrying de Beauvoir, but alas, it never happened. A playwright named John Susman turned their romance into ...
Boredom: A Lively History

Boredom: A Lively History

Peter Toohey

In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea.
Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir

Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir

Karen Vintges

Philosophy as Passion refutes the commonly held view of Simone de Beauvoir as no more than an acolyte of Jean-Paul Sartre.
De existentialisten: filosoferen over vrijheid, zijn en coctails

De existentialisten: filosoferen over vrijheid, zijn en coctails

Sarah Bakewell

‘De existentialisten’ van Sarah Bakewell vertelt het bewogen verhaal van een invloedrijke generatie denkers, waaronder Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre en Raymond Aron.
Sartre Explained: From Bad Faith to Authenticity

Sartre Explained: From Bad Faith to Authenticity

David Detmer

This book will provide readers with all the help they will need to find their own way in Sartre’s works.
Commencement

Commencement

University of Minnesota

... Biwabik Carol Jean Hallgren, St. Paul Mary Margaret Halloran, Minneapolis Karen Jean Hallstrom, St. Paul Joann Beverly Hanson, St. Paul George Daniel Harden, Minneapolis James Henry Lewis Harders, Winona Elizabeth Kay Harmala, ...
Avant-garde Videogames: Playing with Technoculture

Avant-garde Videogames: Playing with Technoculture

Brian Schrank

... 59 Saito, Takako, Smell Chess, 89 Salla, Jeanine, 115, 116 San culture, 168 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 70 Sasser, Cabel, 116 Schell, Jesse, 32–33 Schleiner, Anne- Marie, 41, 130, 181 Schrank, Brian Bishop's Game (with Jeremy Rogers), 105, 106 ...
Histoires Grecques: Snapshots from Antiquity

Histoires Grecques: Snapshots from Antiquity

Maurice Sartre

Sartre spans the grand narrative of Greek culture over a thousand years and a vast expanse of land and sea.
Jean-Paul Sartre: Das Sein und das Nichts

Jean-Paul Sartre: Das Sein und das Nichts

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9. Bernard. N. Schumacher. Phänomenologie. des. menschlichen. Körpers. (539 –632). Die Analyse der Existenz des Andern und besonders des grundlegenden Phänomens des Blickes setzt voraus, dass das Für-sich als ein in einem Körper ...
South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times

South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times

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Their Lives and Times Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, Joan Marie Johnson ... and “frozen speed” (“vitesse glacee”) are Jean-Paul Sartre's. ... Yale University Press, 1981), xv–liii; Anne Montague Blythe, “Elizabeth Allston Pringle's 'The Woman Rice Planter': The New York Sun Letters, 1903–1912” ( PhD diss., ...
Letters to Sartre

Letters to Sartre

Simone de Beauvoir

Now backk in print, the lettes that caused a scandal wen first published, revealing de Beauvoir and Sartre as they had never been seen before.
How To Read Sartre

How To Read Sartre

Robert Bernasconi

Extracts are drawn from the full range of Sartre's writings: the novel Nausea, the drama No Exit, the political essay 'Communists and Peace', as well as the major philosophical texts, Being and Nothingness and Critique of Dialectical Reason ...
Culture, savoirs et sociétés dans l’Antiquité

Culture, savoirs et sociétés dans l’Antiquité

Maurice Sartre

Sous la plume à la fois vivante et érudite de Maurice Sartre, faits de civilisation, habitudes culturelles, aspects religieux reçoivent de nouveaux éclairages.
Jean-paul Marat: The People's Friend

Jean-paul Marat: The People's Friend

E. Belfort Bax

Bax is best known today for his in depth books on some of the most fascinating events in history. This is Bax's excellent biography on Jean-Paul Marat, a famous journalist and politician during the French Revolution.
Freedom As a Value: A Critique of the Ethical Theory of ...

Freedom As a Value: A Critique of the Ethical Theory of ...

David Detmer

This dramatic re-evaluation of Sartre’s ethical theory establishes its author as a leading American exponent of phenomenology and wins many new followers for Sartre in the English-speaking world.
Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures

Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures

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... Frank Johnson, Philip C. Rudolph, Paul Art Art History Bacon, Francis Barthe, James Richmond Bazille, Jean-Frederic The Bloomshury Group and Art Bronzino , Agnolo Cadmus, Paul Caravaggio Cellini, Benvenuto Cocteau, Jean Demuth, ...
Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures

Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures

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... Frank Johnson, Philip C. Rudolph, Paul Art Art History Bacon, Francis Barthé, James Richmond Bazille, Jean-Frédéric The Bloomsbury Group and Art Bronzino , Agnolo Cadmus, Paul Caravaggio Cellini, Benvenuto Cocteau, Jean Demuth, ...
Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia

Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia

George E. Haggerty

Frank Johnson, Philip C. Rudolph, Paul Art Art History Bacon, Francis Barthé, James Richmond Bazille, Jean-Frédéric The Bloomsbury Group and Art Bronzino , Agnolo Cadmus, Paul Caravaggio Cellini, Benvenuto Cocteau, Jean Demuth, ...
Sartre Explained: From Bad Faith to Authenticity

Sartre Explained: From Bad Faith to Authenticity

David Detmer

This readable book, written in lucid and lively prose, straightforwardly addresses the hard, important issues in Sartre. The book is admirable in scope and tasteful in its selection of crucial issues and major texts.

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