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Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
"'How are you?' said Mathieu. 'I thought you were dead.'" Following a Parisian philosophy teacher through the caf s and bars of Montparnasse over two days in the sweltering summer of 1938, Sartre's searing novel explores what it truly means to be free.
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre; Sarah Richmond (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction
First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Être et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend ...Show more
Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Non-Fiction
Born in Paris in 1905, Sartre was a professor of philosophy when he joined the French Army at the outbreak of World War II. Captured by the Germans, he was released, after nearly a year, in 1941. He immediately joined the French resistance as a journalist. In the postwar era Jean-Paul Sartre - philosoph ...Show more
Between Existentialism and Marxism by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Philosophy
A classic work by the founding father of existentialism, describing his philosophy and its relationship to Marxism. "Verso's beautifully designed "Radical Thinkers" series, which brings together seminal works by leading left-wing intellectuals, is a sophisticated blend of theory and thought. The authors ...Show more
Colonialism and Neocolonialism by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Architecture | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre's writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable intellect relentlessly to bear on his own country's co ...Show more
Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Non-Fiction
Originally delivered as a lecture in Paris in 1945, "Existentialism and Humanism" is Sartre's seminal defence of his original doctrine of existentialism and a plan for its practical application to everyday human life. Over the past fifty years, the writings of Sartre have probably been more influential ...Show more
Iron In The Soul (The Roads to Freedom Vol 3) by SARTRE Jean-Paul
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day by day, hour by hour, Iron in the Soul unfolds what men thought and felt and did as France fell. Men who shrugged, men who ran, men who fought and tragic men like Math ...Show more
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, "Nausea" is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition is translated from the French by Robert Baldick with an introd ...Show more
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, La ...Show more
Occasional Philosophical Writings by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\French List Ser.
Four essays by the French master addressing other philosophers and their work. 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 Camus by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: Reference | Series: The\French List Ser.
A window onto one of the most consequential friendships in philosophical history, that of Sartre and Camus--and on its end.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 ...Show more