"What is Literature?" and Other Essays

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1988
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780674950849

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.

Sartre: Literature and Theory

Sartre: Literature and Theory
Author: Rhiannon Goldthorpe
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1984
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521338783

In this major study Rhiannon Goldthorpe takes up the challenge of Sartre's diversity in an original and provocative way. Her detailed and comprehensive exploration of the relationship between the theoretical and literary works pays due attention to their characteristic complexity. The discussion of La Nausée, Les Mouches, Huis clos, Les Mains sales and Les Séquestrés e'Altona, for example, does not present these literary texts as mere 'illustrations' of Sartre's theories of consciousness, imagination and emotion, but as subtle philosophical and linguistic investigations in their own right. In addition, by reference to recently published fragments from Sartre's earlier work, Goldthorpe calls into question existing views of Sartre's intellectual development and provides a new history of the crucial Sartrean concept of 'commitment'.

Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings

Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2002-01-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134612958

Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century. The principle founder of existentialism, a political thinker and famous novelist and dramatist, his work has exerted enormous influence in philosophy, literature, politics and cultural studies. Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings is the first collection of Sartre's key philosophical writings and provides an indispensable resource for all students and readers of his work. Stephen Priest's clear and helpful introductions set each reading in context, making the volume an ideal companion to those coming to Sartre's writings for the first time.

The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre

The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2003-05-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1400076323

This unique selection presents the essential elements of Sartre's lifework -- organized systematically and made available in one volume for the first time in any language.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre
Author: Christine Daigle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2009-10-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134077521

A critical figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual. Christine Daigle sets Sartre’s thought in context, and considers a number of key ideas in detail, charting their impact and continuing influence, including: Sartre’s theories of consciousness, being and freedom as outlined in Being and Nothingness and other texts the ethics of authenticity and absolute responsibility concrete relations, sexual relationships and gender difference, focusing on the significance of the alienating look of the Other the social and political role of the author the legacy of Sartre’s theories and their relationship to structuralism and philosophy of mind. Introducing both literary and philosophical texts by Sartre, this volume makes Sartre’s ideas newly accessible to students of literary and cultural studies as well as to students of continental philosophy and French.

Literary Essays

Literary Essays
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1957
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Jean-Paul Sartre's influence on modern literature is based, not only on his remarkable philosophy and his stature as a playwright and novelist, but on his weight as a literary critic. First in France, and later abroad, his original and trenchant analysis of contemporary letters have sown the seeds from which a whole school of criticism sprung up. In these sparkling essays he brings his unique viewpoint to bear upon a significant group of twentieth-century writers - men who are not only of first importance to the Existentialists, but who may be among the creative giants of our time: William Faulkner, Francois Mauriac, John Dos Passos, Jean Giraudoux, Albert Camus and Franz Kafka. These fascinating studies extend still further the range of Sartre's ideas, as well as clarifying the aesthetic theories laid down in Being and Nothingness. They make provocative reading for anyone whose ears are not closed to the more controversial issues of the day"--Back cover.