This is the first collection of Sartre's key philosophical writings and provides an indispensable resource for all students and readers of his work, which has been influential in philosophy, literature and politics.[...]

This book presents a full decade of Sartre's work, from the publication of the "Critique of Dialectical Reason" in 1960, the basic philosophical turning-point in his postwar development, to the inception of his major study on Flaubert, the first volumes of which appeared in 1971. The essays and inte[...]

An intimate dual portrait discusses Sartre and de Beauvoir's Existentialist philosophies, their notorious open union, and the controversy surrounding their relationship that has endured throughout the past twenty-five years. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.[...]

A that study analyses and evaluates the different strands of Sartre's rich and complex work. Combining the objectivity of the scholar with an interest in contemporary problems, this title discusses the tradition of philosophical, political and aesthetic thought that gives historical authenticity to [...]

These three plays, diverse in subject but thematically coherent, illuminate one of Sartre's major philosophical concerns: the struggle to live and act freely in a complex and constricting world. "Lucifer and the Lord", Sartre's favourite among his plays, explores this theme in depth, dealing in the [...]

It is September 1938 and during a heatwave, Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris, people are waiting too, among them Mathieu, Jacques and Philippe, each wrestling with their own love affairs, doubts and angsts - and none [...]

Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's early, anti-humanist philosophy is indebted to the Christian doctrine of original sin. On the standard reading, Sartre's most fundamental and attractive idea is freedom: he wished to demonstrate the existence of human freedo[...]

Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent than in their disparate approaches to historical und[...]

* What is it to be human? * What place do we have in the world? * How should we live? * What can we be? This book provides a comparative analysis of the response that Hegel and Sartre give to these questions and, in so doing, offers one of the first sustained, comparative studies of their thought av[...]

First published in 1961, Sartre: The Origins of a Style is a striking attempt not merely to analyze Sartre's work formally, from an aesthetic perspective but above all to replace Sartre in literary history itself. As a study of Sartre's writings this work articulates the antagonism between the moder[...]

A challenging new look at the great thinkers whose ides have shaped our civilizationFrom Socrates to Sartre presents a rousing and readable introduction to the lives, and times of the great philosophers. This thought-provoking book takes us from the inception of Western society in Platos Athens to t[...]