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Sartre and Fiction.
Title:
Sartre and Fiction.
Author:
Cox, Gary.
ISBN:
9781441143082
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (226 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Chronology: Sartre's Life and Works -- 1 Sartre's Writing -- 2 Sartre's Existentialism -- Being-in-itself and Being-for-itself -- Consciousness and Intentionality -- Being-for-others -- The Body - Subject and Object -- Freedom and Responsibility -- Bad Faith -- Authenticity -- Existentialism, Ethics and Marxism -- 3 Sartre's Short Stories -- The Wall -- The Room -- Erostratus -- Intimacy -- The Childhood of a Leader -- 4 Sartre's Novels -- Nausea -- Roads to Freedom trilogy -- The Age of Reason -- The Reprieve -- Iron in the Soul -- 5 Sartre's Plays -- The Flies -- In Camera (No Exit or Behind Closed Doors) -- Men without Shadows (Death without Burial or The Victors) -- The Respectable Prostitute -- Dirty Hands (Crime Passionnel) -- The Devil and the Good Lord (Lucifer and the Lord) -- Kean, or Disorder and Genius -- Nekrassov, A Farce in Eight Scenes -- The Condemned of Altona (The Sequestered of Altona or Altona or Loser Wins) -- The Trojan Women -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
Sartre and Fiction offers a clear and accessible introduction to the extensive fictional writings of Jean-Paul Sartre. Providing comprehensive coverage of his short stories, novels and plays, the book examines the close links between the ideas and themes in his fiction and those put forward in his formal philosophical works. Sartre wrote fiction as a means of developing and enriching his philosophical ideas. Gary Cox reveals the extent to which Sartre's fictional writings are truly philosophical and an integral part of his overall intellectual vision. He also explores the ways in which Sartre's fictional writings reflect the personal, historical and political context in which they were written. Aside from yielding a wealth of personal and historical detail, this fascinating book demonstrates that the only way to fully appreciate Sartre's grand philosophical project is to understand the man himself and the troubled times though which he lived and wrote. Ideal for undergraduate students encountering Sartre for the first time, this book offers the first sustained introduction to Sartre's fictional oeuvre.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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