| Description |
xxvi, 555 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
New York Review Books Classics |
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New York Review Books classics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-555). |
| Contents |
A fundamental idea of Husserl's phenomenology : intentionality -- On John Dos Passos and 1919 -- On The Sound and the Furyb : temporality in Faulkner -- The Stranger explained -- Drieu La Rochelle, or self-hatred -- A new mystic : on Bataille's Inner Experience -- The republic of silence -- Existentialism : a clarification -- On the American working class -- The liberation of Paris : an apocalyptic week -- New York, colonial city -- Nick's Bar, New York City -- Introducing Les Temps Modernes -- Calder's mobiles -- Black Orpheus -- The quest for the absolute : on Giacometti's sculpture -- Portrait of the adventurer -- Reply to Albert Camus -- From The Ghost of Stalin -- A victory -- Paul Nizan -- Merleau-Ponty -- The wretched of the earth -- Kierkegaard : the singular universal -- Russell Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal inaugural statement -- Israel and the Arab world -- The socialism that came in from the cold -- The third world begins in the suburbs -- Elections : a trap for fools From "Self-Portrait at Seventy." |
| Summary |
Jean-Paul Sartre was a man of staggering gifts, whose accomplishments as philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, and activist still command attention and inspire debate. Sartre's restless intelligence may have found its most characteristic outlet in the open-ended form of the essay. For Sartre the essay was an essentially dramatic form, the record of an encounter, the framing of a choice. Whether writing about literature, art, politics, or his own life, he seizes our attention and drives us to grapple with the living issues that are at stake. |
| Language |
Translated from the French. |
| Subject |
Philosophy.
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Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
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| Added Author |
Aronson, Ronald, 1938- editor.
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Van den Hoven, Adrian, 1939- editor.
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| Added Title |
Essays. Selections. English
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| ISBN |
9781590174937 (alk. paper) |
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1590174933 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
40022472861 |
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