Format:
1 online resource (xv, 436 pages)
ISBN:
9781139020206
Content:
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Regarded as the father of existentialist philosophy, he was also a political critic, moralist, playwright, novelist, and author of biographies and short stories. Thomas R. Flynn provides the first book-length account of Sartre as a philosopher of the imaginary, mapping the intellectual development of his ideas throughout his life, and building a narrative that is not only philosophical but also attentive to the political and literary dimensions of his work. Exploring Sartre's existentialism, politics, ethics, and ontology, this book illuminates the defining ideas of Sartre's oeuvre: the literary and the philosophical, the imaginary and the conceptual, his descriptive phenomenology and his phenomenological concept of intentionality, and his conjunction of ethics and politics with an 'egoless' consciousness. It will appeal to all who are interested in Sartre's philosophy and its relation to his life
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
,
1. The childhood of a genius -- 2. An elite education: student, author, soldier, teacher -- 3. Teaching in the Lycée, 1931-1939 -- 4. First triumph: The Imagination -- 5. Consciousness as imagination -- 6. The necessity of contingency: Nausea -- 7. The war years, 1939-1944 -- 8. Bad faith in human life: Being and Nothingness -- 9. Existentialism: the fruit of liberation -- 10. Ends and means: existential ethics -- 11. Means and ends: political existentialism -- 12. A theory of history: Search for a Method -- 13. Individuals and groups: Critique of Dialectical Reason -- 14. A second ethics? -- 15. Existential biography: Flaubert and others -- Conclusion: the Sartrean imaginary, chastened but indomitable
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe ISBN 978-0-521-82640-2
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe ISBN 978-1-107-47601-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
Sartre, Jean-Paul 1905-1980
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139020206
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Bookmarklink
