Existentialism Is a Humanism
$27.46
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2007
Summary
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominant European intellectual of the post-World War II decades, accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture (“Existentialism Is a Humanism”) was to expound his philosophy as a form of “existentialism,” a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for philosophers, thou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300115468 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0300115466 |
| Author: | Jean-Paul Sartre, Carol Macomber, Annie Cohen-Solal, Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2007 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 10mm |
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Critics Review
“Sartre matters because so many fundamental points of his analysis of the human reality are right and true, and because their accuracy and veracity entail real consequences for our lives as individuals and in social groups.“—Benedict O’Donohoe, Philosophy NowSelected as a 2008 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries“To understand Jean-Paul Sartre is to understand something important about the present time.“—Iris Murdoch
About The Author
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, playwright, and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was the most dominant European intellectual for the three decades following World War II. In 1964, he was awarded but declined the Nobel Prize in Literature. Annie Cohen-Solal is the author of the acclaimed Sartre: A Life, an international best-seller that has been translated into sixteen languages.
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