Sartre and Existentialism: Philosophy, Politics, Ethics, the Psyche, Literature, and Aesthetics
Existentialist Literature and Aesthetics
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By William L. McBride
December 01, 1996
Existentialist Literature and AestheticsMost of Sartre's extensive works of and about literature-his fiction, his drama, his never-produced film script on Freud, and his extensive biographical studies of Genet and Flaubert-as well as theoretical questions about these genres and their relationship ...
Sartre's French Contemporaries and Enduring Influences: Camus, Merleau-Ponty, Debeauvoir & Enduring Influences
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By William L. McBride
December 01, 1996
Sartre's French Contemporaries and Enduring InfluencesThis final volume examines Sartre's best-known philosophical contemporaries in France-Albert Camus, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir-in terms of both their own philosophical insights and their relationship to Sartre's thought. The ...
Existentialist Background: Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger: Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger
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By William L. McBride
November 01, 1996
Existentialist Background: Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Jaspers, HeideggerThese essays explore the relationship to existentialism of some of Sartre's 19th-century predecessors and near-contemporaries. For example, Kierkegaard was never told that he was an existentialist, and Heidegger ...
Existentialist Ethics: Issues in Existentialist Ethics
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By William L. McBride
November 01, 1996
Existentialist EthicsEthics was Sartre's principal concern, beginning with his famous and complex treatment of bad faith in Being and Nothingness, and continuing through his massive posthumously-published Notebooks for an Ethics of the late 1940's, and his mostly unpublished lecture notes that date...
Existentialist Ontology and Human Consciousness
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By William L. McBride
November 01, 1996
Existentialist Ontology and Human ConsciousnessThe majority of the distinguished scholarly articles in this volume focus on Sartre's early philosophical work, which dealt first with imagination and the emotions, then with the critique of Husserl's notion of a transcendental ego, and finally with ...
Existentialist Politics and Political Theory
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By William L. McBride
November 01, 1996
Existentialist Politics and Political TheoryThe publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960 marked the culmination of Sartre's efforts, begun in his more occasional political writings in what became essentially his journal, Les Temps Modernes, and developed more systematically in his ...
Sartre's Life, Times and Vision du Monde
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By William L. McBride
November 01, 1996
William L. McBride Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, is co-founder of the North American Sartre Society, and the first chairperson of its executive board. His most recent publications include Social and Political Philosophy and Sartre's Political Theory. He was recently named ...
The Development and Meaning of Twentieth-Century Existentialism
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By William L. McBride
November 01, 1996
The Development and Meaning of Twentieth-Century ExistentialismThis volume recaptures, through the writings of figures already well-known in the mid-1940s, the coming-to-consciousness of the existentialist movement, along with early disagreements concerning its significance. The articles present ...