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Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Classic 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 by Jean-Paul Sartre; Sarah Richmond (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Être et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend ...Show more
Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: 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
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Routledge Classics
Being and Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. The central work by one of the world's most influential thinkers, it altered the course of western philosophy. Its revolutionary approach challenged all previous assumptions about the individual's relation ...Show more
Between Existentialism and Marxism by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Fiction
A classic work by the founding father of existentialism, describing his philosophy and its relationship to Marxism. "Verso's beautifully designed "Radical Thinkers" series, which brings together seminal works by leading left-wing intellectuals, is a sophisticated blend of theory and thought. The authors ...Show more
Colonialism and Neocolonialism by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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
Category: Culture
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
Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2: The Intelligibility of History by Sartre, Jean-Paul
Category: Fiction
Existential Psychoanalysis by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Culture
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