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Sartre : a philosophical biography /
"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 b...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
C, U. P,
2014.
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| Online Access: | http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/26402/cover/9780521826402.jpg |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The childhood of a genius; 2. An elite education: student, author, soldier, teacher; 3. Teaching in the Lyce;e, 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.