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Sartre : a philosophical biography /

"Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Regarded as the father of existentialist philosophy, he was also a political critic, moralist, playwright, novelist, and author of biographies and short stories. Thomas R. Flynn provides the first b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Flynn, Thomas R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The childhood of a genius
  • 2. An elite education: student, author, soldier, teacher
  • 3. Teaching in the Lycée, 1931-1939
  • 4. First triumph: The Imagination
  • 5. Consciousness as imagination
  • 6. The necessity of contingency: Nausea
  • 7. The war years, 1939-1944
  • 8. Bad faith in human life: Being and Nothingness
  • 9. Existentialism: the fruit of liberation
  • 10. Ends and means: existential ethics
  • 11. Means and ends: political existentialism
  • 12. A theory of history: Search for a Method
  • 13. Individuals and groups: Critique of Dialectical Reason
  • 14. A second ethics?
  • 15. Existential biography: Flaubert and others
  • Conclusion: the Sartrean imaginary, chastened but indomitable.