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1. The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Paperback: 512
Pages
(2003-05-27)
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Fair and far-reaching overview of Jean-Paul Sartre's work
Wonderful Sartrean examinations and crituques |
2. The Reprieve: A Novel by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Paperback: 464
Pages
(1992-07-07)
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Many Brilliant Characters Bring a Historical Crisis to Life
A philosophical potboiler...
why appeasement doesn'twork
There is no fog in Paris in this novel Definitely introspective to extremes, this novel, the second in his series "The Roads to Freedom", is the ultimate portrayal of life in France before the Munich Pact and the takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938. As a reader, it is easy to get trapped in the stream of consciousness approach that Sartre takes in his novel. Each character is not to be found alone, but immersed in the quagmire of panic, and for some, exhiliration, at the prospect of wartime conflict. The characters define themselves by the instant, their attitudes caught in the flux, that flux impossible to arrest, but their choices completely free nonetheless. Their individuality is sometimes robbed by the gaze of the other, but captured again by choice. Ideology has a short time scale for them. Sartre does not really shout at the reader through his characters. But their predicament is believable. Their anxiety sometimes familiar, but they also have a perhaps hidden optimism. They know it is themselves, and no other, that determines their future history. The (burden?) of choice is with them always, and they understand fully the power of consequences. But choice works for them as well as against. This makes the appreciation of these characters easy and familiar.
the collective consciousness. |
3. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(2007-05-23)
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Eh...
Beautifully written, bad philosophy
STAY AWAY P.O.S. BOOK ALERT!!!!
And the Point is...?
Good philosophy doesn't have to be boring |
4. Search for a Method by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Mass Market Paperback: 224
Pages
(1968-08-12)
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Concise account of Sartre
The Dawn of Marxist Existentialism For those who are aquainted with Sartre's earlier existential writings, this kind of thinking may seem altogether foreign.The old Sartre would have been loathe to suggest any form of conditioning or that one has been made in some way or other.But, this is part of the reason why many feel he abandoned his existentialism.I, on the other hand, do not feel that he did at all.In fact I suggest his existentialism is richer and his arguments more tenable in his later phase.As Sartre himself suggested in an interview late in his life, "life taught me the force of circumstances."It will be circumstances, both grand and minute, that all go into forming the people we are, both collectively and individually.Circumstances are, in other words, the factical moments out of which our contingent choices are made.Thus, Search sets out to examine a methodology that can account for both the factical and contingent, the necessary and the random, in the making of a people, person, or culture. By Sartre standards this is a relatively easy read with a big payoff.As I mentioned, it is crucial to understanding the major works that would follow, as well as the occasional and literary works that would follow, e.g. his many writings on politics and even plays such as Condemned of Altona.But I also feel it stands well by itself and I do not feel that the reader necessarily have a background in Being and Nothingness or earlier Sartre to get something out of it.Indeed, it is also an excellent source for those seeking alternatives to the various more popular forms of psychoanalysis as well as cultural studies.Sartre was a maverick, no doubt, and often he failed in his attempts to construct a solid theory.But here, in Search, I believe that Sartre is at his best and most profound.
wonderfully evinced
This is the best and most concise intro to Sartre. |
5. The Psychology of Imagination by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Paperback: 282
Pages
(1991-12-31)
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6. Essays In Existentialism by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Paperback: 448
Pages
(2000-06-01)
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Skip the Tintoretto
Don't miss this book, it will change your life!!! |
7. "What is Literature?" and Other Essays by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Paperback: 368
Pages
(1988-10-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description "What is Literature?" remains the most significant critical landmark of French literature since World War II. Neither abstract nor abstruse, it is a brilliant, provocative performance by a writer more inspired than cautious. "What is Literature?" challenges anyone who writes as if literature could be extricated from history or society. But Sartre does more than indict. He offers a definitive statement about the phenomenology of reading, and he goes on to provide a dashing example of how to write a history of literature that takes ideology and institutions into account. This new edition of "What is Literature?" also collects three other crucial essays of Sartre's for the first time in a volume of his. The essays presenting Sartre's monthly, Les Temps modernes, and on the peculiarly French manner of nationalizing literature do much to create a context for Sartre's treatise. "Black Orpheus" has been for many years a key text for the study of black and third-world literatures. Customer Reviews (2)
empty philosophizing
Better than i expected |
8. Sartre and Camus: A Historic Confrontation | |
Hardcover: 275
Pages
(2004-03)
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Is there a third way? |
9. The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Mass Market Paperback: 246
Pages
(1964)
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10. The Age of Reason: A Novel by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Paperback: 416
Pages
(1992-07-07)
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High-Minded Egoist in Domestic Crisis (and Astonishing Insect Metaphors)
If only for Ivich, this book is worth it.
Defective Book Shipped by Amazon
Something like a French Dostoyevsky...
Obnoxious Characters Make for Masochistic Reading |
11. Hope Now: The 1980 Interviews by Jean-Paul Sartre, Benny Levy | |
Paperback: 142
Pages
(2007-08-15)
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Alternative compendium of "the 60s" In the weeks before his death, Sartre and long-time personal secy Benny Levy recorded a series of discussions, in the form of interviews, some of which were published in a Paris weekly newspaper. Levy, a former Maoist student leader (for the contemporary American student, Maoist student leader is probably as archaic or unknown a term as internal combustion engine) & ardent student of Sartre, fairly attacked the blind & aging writer/philosopher, at times engaging him, at times bullying him. Thruout the interviews (which take up, really, just one-fourth of the entire book [hence 3 stars]; the rest is all intro commentary & postscripts), Sartre seemed to hold his own, citing the errors of Marxism, existentialism, & the left-wing political movements of the 60s & early 70s. I think the interviews offer the reader a good feel for that period (fondly known in the USA as "the 60s"), when Levy was known as Pierre Victor, Sartre was backing all kinds of radical & left-wing endeavors, & the 1968 student rebellions thruout Europe but especially in Paris threatened to topple the whole knowledge-is-power façade. In the end, the students failed, but the student uprisings in the USA, then & after, were a mere burlesque of those in Europe: certainly, the knowledge-is-power concept was never questioned (US students just wanted more power with their knowledge), & the smugness that allows Mr. Aronson to pose questions dispassionately has enveloped every succeeding academic iteration. The famous quote from Sartre's one-act play, "No Exit," was "Hell is other people." Sartre was almost 75 when these interviews took place, and then he said, "It's other people that are my old age...Old age is a reality that is mine but that others feel..." The topics that disturbed so many after the interviews were published were Judaism and Jewishness. Levy generalizes that Jews fear the revolutionary mob because it may become the pogrom mob; Sartre counters that "there were a considerable number of Jews in the Communist Party in 1917 [in Russia]." Personally, I am at a loss to explain why Levy was reviled by Sartre scholars: Sartre states that he was profoundly influenced by the "Jewish reality" that confronted him after the war, when he met Jews that he saw as having a destiny "beyond the ravages [of] anti-Semitism." Hope Now seems to me to be more of a coda to the 1972 documentary, "Sartre: By Himself," where he chatted amiably with the editorial staff of Le Temps Moderne and Simone de Beauvoir. That film depicted a leisurely afternoon with friends. Sartre with Levy seems more like colleagues at work. Unlike the current crop of celebrity academics, Sartre always appeared, to appropriate Harry Stack Sullivan's comment about schizophrenics, "simply human." ... Read more |
12. The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Paperback: 119
Pages
(1991-01-01)
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The turning point in the thought of Sartre
An Existential Classic
mind blowing |
13. Last Chance: Roads of Freedom IV by Jean-Paul Sartre, Craig Vasey | |
Paperback: 232
Pages
(2009-11-30)
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Fascinating Look at Satre's Unfinished Novel |
14. Critique of Dialectical Reason (New Edition)(Vol. 1-2) by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Paperback: 1364
Pages
(2010-03-16)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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 twentieth century, now published as a two-volume set with a major new introduction by Fredric Jameson. In it, Sartre set out the basic categories for the renovated theory of history that he believed was necessary for post-war Marxism. Sartre's formal aim was to establish the dialectical intelligibility of history itself, as what he called 'a totalisation without a totaliser'. But, at the same time, his substantive concern was the structure of class struggle and the fate of mass movements of popular revolt, from the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century to the Russian and Chinese revolutions in the twentieth: their ascent, stabilisation, petrification and decline, in a world still overwhelmingly dominated by scarcity. The second volume of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason was drafted in 1958 and published in France in 1985, first appearing in English in 1991. As in Volume One, Sartre proceeds by moving from the simple to the complex: from individual combat (through a perceptive study of boxing) to the struggle of subgroups within an organized group form and, finally, to social struggle, with an extended analysis of the Bolshevik Revolution. The book concludes with a forceful reaffirmation of dialectical reason: of the dialectic as 'that which is truly irreducible in action'. Customer Reviews (6)
A Negation of a Negation
A Foundation for the New Marxism, Towards a Philosophy of Totality
Sartre's Inimitable Greatness - One response to the above reviews
Sartre's Inimitable Greatness - One response to the above reviews
For Sartrists and Satirists |
15. Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean Paul Sartre | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(2007-07-24)
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Pretty but not worth it
An overview
The Clearest Statement yet of Sartre's Version of Existentialism
A Great First Hand Introduction to Existentialism
Is Existentialism a Humanism? |
16. The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination (Routledge Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(2010-04-21)
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Editorial Review Product Description A cornerstone of Sartre’s philosophy, The Imaginary was first published in 1940. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of the 'intentionality of consciousness' as a key to the puzzle of existence. Against this background, The Imaginary crystallized Sartre's worldview and artistic vision. The book is an extended examination of the concepts of nothingness and freedom, both of which are derived from the ability of consciousness to imagine objects both as they are and as they are not – ideas that would drive Sartre's existentialism and entire theory of human freedom. |
17. The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook) by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Paperback: 144
Pages
(1969-01-17)
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Great work of existentialism
In depth study of human psychology
Who didn't feel the fear and smelled the sweat of Pablo Ibbieta?
Rationalization of marginality
A Mesmorizing Journey.Extreme Psychological Insight "The Wall" is the first story presented.It consumes the reader because of its brilliant writing style. The story is narrated by a man named Pablo Ibbieta, who is in a jail cell with 2 others awaiting execution the following morning. Every event that transpires that particular night is analyzed almost too thoroughly thus leaving the reader in a trance. I wont get into it too deeply, but believe me, this story is worth reading...i guarentee it will have to be read again. After finishing the story, I felt as though nothing mattered.Who cares if the dishes were not washed, who cares if I would be late for work. Believe me, this story will have a profound impact on the way you think.Don't be surprised if you have a new appreciation for life.This story enlightens the mind. Another great story from this book is called "Erostratus". Erostratus was a character who wanted to be famous, so he burned down the temple of Ephesus, which was one of the 7 wonders of the world.This is the central symbol of the story, the quest for glory.It also brings up an interesting point when the narrator asks one of his colleagues "Who built Ephesus?" and the colleauge did not know, he only knew who burned it. "Erostratus" in short is one mans decent into madness because of his quest to be remembered. The ending of "Erostratus" is filled with suspense and makes your heart beat in fear.It serves as a grim reminder that there are people of this type, and we should be prepared at any time for them to strike. There are also 3 other stories, that being "The Room", "Intimacy", and "The Childhood of a Leader", which also draw the reader inside the workings of the mind through an existential window (ie: we are all here by accident, man is condemned to choose). In short, these stories are all perfect, and leave the reader with a feeling of enlightment.Sartre is an extremely intelligent and clever writer.This is evident in these short stories.So turn off the television, buy this book, and start questioning your existence, you owe it to yourself. Besides, they are short stories, so you will be able to get through at least one a day...that isnt much to ask considering the benefits you will reap by reading them. ... Read more |
18. Quiet Moments in a War by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2002-05-21)
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19. Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology by Jean Paul Sartre | |
Mass Market Paperback: 811
Pages
(1978)
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20. Nausea: The Wall and Other Stories by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Hardcover: 352
Pages
(1999-08)
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A Mesmorizing Journey...Extreme Psychological Insights "The Wall" is the first story presented.It consumes the reader because of its brilliant writing style. The story is narrated by a man named Pablo Ibbieta, who is in a jail cell with 2 others awaiting execution the following morning. Every event that transpires that particular night is analyzed almost too thoroughly thus leaving the reader in a trance. I wont get into it too deeply, but believe me, this story is worth reading...i guarentee it will have to be read again. After finishing the story, I felt as though nothing mattered.Who cares if the dishes were not washed, who cares if I would be late for work. Believe me, this story will have a profound impact on the way you think.Don't be surprised if you have a new appreciation for life.This story enlightens the mind. Another great story from this book is called "Erostratus". Erostratus was a character who wanted to be famous, so he burned down the temple of Ephesus, which was one of the 7 wonders of the world.This is the central symbol of the story, the quest for glory.It also brings up an interesting point when the narrator asks one of his colleagues "Who built Ephesus?" and the colleauge did not know, he only knew who burned it. "Erostratus" in short is one mans decent into madness because of his quest to be remembered. The ending of "Erostratus" is filled with suspense and makes your heart beat in fear.It serves as a grim reminder that there are people of this type, and we should be prepared at any time for them to strike. There are also 3 other stories, that being "The Room", "Intimacy", and "The Childhood of a Leader", which also draw the reader inside the workings of the mind through an existential window (ie: we are all here by accident, man is condemned to choose). In short, these stories are all perfect, and leave the reader with a feeling of enlightment.Sartre is an extremely intelligent and clever writer.This is evident in these short stories.So turn off the television, buy this book, and start questioning your existence, you owe it to yourself. Besides, they are short stories, so you will be able to get through at least one a day...that isnt much to ask considering the benefits you will reap by reading them. ... Read more |
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