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On Modern Art by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Classics | Series: The\French List Ser.
A collection of insightful essays by the French philosopher on contemporary art. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through th ...Show more
On Revolution by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\French List Ser.
A two-part essay on the "myth" of revolution and the figure of the artist. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the de ...Show more
Politics and Literature by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Non-Fiction
First published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartre's most enduring concerns as a philosopher: politics and literature. With regard to the former, they develop the notion of the intellectual not only as an aloof theoretician, but also ...Show more
Post-War Reflections by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Classics
Iconic French novelist, playwright and essayist, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, whose work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the decades. The Seagull Sartre Library now presents some of his most inci ...Show more
Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Although written fairly early in his career, in 1939, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is considered to be one of Jean-Paul Sartre's most important pieces of writing. It not only anticipates but argues many of the ideas to be found in his famous Being and Nothingness. By subjecting the emotion theori ...Show more
The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the t ...Show more
The Age of Reason: Popular Penguins by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reasonfollows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in t ...Show more
The Imaginary by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Translated by Jonathan Webber, with introductions by Arlette Elkaim-Sartre and Jonathan WebberWe may therefore conclude that imagination is not an empirical power added to consciousness but it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes freedom.' Jean Paul SartreA cornerstone of Sartre's philosophy. Th ...Show more
The Reprieve (The Roads to Freedom Vol 2) by Jean Paul Sartre
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
It is September 1938 and during a heatwave, Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris, people are waiting too, among them Mathieu, Jacques and Philippe, each wrestling with their own love affairs, doubts and angsts - and none of t ...Show more
The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet; Jean-Paul Sartre (Foreword by); Patti Smith (Introduction by)
Category: Biography
The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel; an account of his impoverished travels across 1930s Europe. The narrator is guilty of vagrancy, petty theft and prostitution, but his writing transforms such degradations into an inverted moral code, where criminality ...Show more
The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Classics
First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre's first and only collection of short fiction. The title piece tells the story of a prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, on the eve of his execution by a firing squad, who is told he wi ...Show more
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon ; Jean-Paul Sartre (Preface by)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autob ...Show more