Family Idiot - Gustave Flaubert, 18211857, an Abridged Edition

An approachable abridgment of Sartre's important analysis of Flaubert.

From 1981 to 1994, the University of Chicago Press published a five-volume translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, a sprawling masterwork by one of the greatest intellects of the twentieth century. This new volume delivers a compact abridgment of the original by renowned Sartre scholar, Joseph Catalano.

Sartre claimed that his existential approach to psychoanalysis required a new Freud, and in his study of Gustave Flaubert, Sartre becomes that Freud. The work summarizes Sartre's overarching aim to reveal that human life is a meaningful adventure of freedom. In discussing Flaubert's work, particularly his classic novel Madame Bovary, Sartre unleashes a fierce critique of modernity as nihilistic and demeaning of human dignity.

Info autore

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) was a French novelist, playwright, and biographer who is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His work earned him the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jean-Paul Sartre
• Con la collaborazione di: Joseph S. Catalano (Editore), Catalano Joseph S. (Editore), Carol Cosman (Traduzione), Cosman Carol (Traduzione)
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9780226822327
• ISBN: 978-0-226-82232-7
• Pagine: 304
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Famiglia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia; EDUCATION / General, Education, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy