“jean paul sartre”

Being And Nothingness is without doubt one of the mostsignificant books of the twentieth century. The central work by one of theworld's most influential thinkers, it altered the course of Western philosophy.Its revolutionary approach challenged all previous assumptions about the individual'srelation... More

Huis Clos is designed primarily for use by intermediate French classes, it can be used, in class or out, at any level of college and university instruction in French.... More

The often criticized philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre encompasses the dilemmas and aspirations of the individual in contemporary society. This work of power and epic scope provides a vivid analysis for all who would understand one of the most influential philosophic movements of this or any age.... More

4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism.... More

The third novel of Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, Troubled Sleep powerfully depicts the fall of France in 1940, and the anguished feelings of a group of Frenchmen, whose prewar apathy gives way to a consciousness of the dignity of individual resistance--to the German occupation and to ... More

The Transcendence of the Ego, first published in France in 1937, may be regarded as a turning point in the philosophical development of Jean-Paul Sartre. Before writing this essay, Sartre had become intimately acquainted with phenomenologists such as Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In this crit... More