Jean-Paul Sartre

Informationen zum Autor Christine Daigle is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Women's Studies at Brock University, Ontario. She is the President of NASS (North American Sartre Society), author of Le nihilisme est-il un humanisme: Étude sur Nietzsche et Sartre (2005) and editor of Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics (2006) and co-editor with Jacob Golomb of Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of Influence (2009). Klappentext As the founding figure of existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre was a key figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, whose writings changed the course of critical thought. Christine Daigle sets Sartre's thought in context, and considers a number of key ideas in detail, charting their impact and continuing influence. Zusammenfassung As the founding figure of existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre was a key figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, whose writings changed the course of critical thought. Christine Daigle sets Sartre’s thought in context, and considers a number of key ideas in detail, charting their impact and continuing influence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Why Sartre? Key Ideas 1. Consciousness 2. Being 3. Freedom 4. Authenticity 5. Interpersonal relations 6. The human condition 7. Committed literature 8. Politics After Sartre. Further Reading

Product details

• Authors: Christine Daigle, Daigle Christine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2009
• EAN: 9780415435642
• ISBN: 978-0-415-43564-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 204 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism