1st Edition

Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings

Edited By Stephen Priest Copyright 2001
352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century. The principle founder of existentialism, a political thinker and famous novelist and dramatist, his work has exerted enormous influence in philosophy, literature, politics and cultural studies. Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings is the first collection of Sartre's key philosophical writings and provides an... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Existentialism 3. Phenomenology 4. Emotion 5. Imagination 6. Being 7. Nothingness 8. Time 9. Freedom 10. Ethics 11. Bad Faith 12. Others 13. Psychoanalysis 14. Literature 15. The Work of Art 16. Politics

Biography

Stephen Priest is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a visiting scholar of Wolfson College, Oxford. He is the author of The British Empiricists, Theories of the Mind, Merleau-Ponty and The Subject in Question^n and also editor of Hegel's Critique of Kant.

'An invaluable introduction to Sartre's philosophy'. - Times Literary Supplement