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The Imagination
"No matter how long I may look at an image, I shall never find anything in it but what I put there. It is in this fact that we find the distinction between an image and a perception". - Jean-Paul Sartre L’Imagination was published in 1936 when Jean-Paul Sartre was thirty years old. Long out of...
To Be Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
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The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre (Routledge Revivals)
Series: Routledge Revivals
First published in Great Britain in 1968, this is an authoritative introduction to the life of one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Prompted by the belief that none of the parts of Sartre’s work is fully intelligible apart from the whole , this ambitious volume...
Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
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The Transcendence of the Ego
A Sketch for a Phenomenological Description
Series: Routledge Classics
‘I should like to show here that the Ego is neither formally or materially in consciousness: it is outside, in the world.’ Jean-Paul Sartre The Transcendence of the Ego is one of Jean-Paul Sartre's earliest philosophical publications and essential for understanding the trajectory of his work as a...
Published March 29th 2011 by Routledge
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Reading Sartre
On Phenomenology and Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The fourteen original essays in this volume focus on the phenomenological and existentialist writings of the first major phase of his published career, arguing with scholarly precision for their continuing...
Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge
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The Imaginary
A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination
Series: Routledge Classics
A cornerstone of Sartre’s philosophy, The Imaginary was first published in 1940. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of the 'intentionality of consciousness' as a key to the puzzle of existence. Against this background, The...
Published March 11th 2010 by Routledge
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Sartre and the Moral Limits of War and Terrorism
Series: Studies in Philosophy
Reinterpreting Sartre’s main methodologies and removing Hegelian dialectics from his notion of violence, this book demolishes the supposed hostile intersubjective relations that characterizes all concrete relations. Furthering this stance, it reconstructs an interpretation of the "violent Sartre"...
Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
A critical figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual. Christine Daigle sets Sartre’s thought in context, and considers a number of key ideas in detail, charting their impact...
Published October 15th 2009 by Routledge
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The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy
Webber argues for a new interpretation of Sartrean existentialism. On this reading, Sartre is arguing that each person’s character consists in the projects they choose to pursue and that we are all already aware of this but prefer not to face it. Careful consideration of his existentialist writings...
Published December 11th 2008 by Routledge
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Sartre - Arg Philosophers
Published October 9th 2008 by Routledge
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Colonialism and Neocolonialism
Series: Routledge Classics
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...
Published January 31st 2006 by Routledge
