1st Edition

The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre

By Jonathan Webber Copyright 2009
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

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 shows this to be the unifying theme of his theories of consciousness, freedom, the self, bad faith,... Read more

Preface

Chapter One: Understanding Ourselves

Chapter Two: The Reality of Character

Chapter Three: Situations

Chapter Four: Freely Chosen Projects

Chapter Five: Radical Freedom

Chapter Six: Anguish, Bad Faith, and Sincerity

Chapter Seven: The Project of Bad Faith

Chapter Eight: God and the Useless Passion

Chapter Nine: One Another

Chapter Ten: The Virtue of Authenticity

Chapter Eleven: Being One Self

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Jonathan Webber is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff. He has published papers on Sartre and on the theory of character in leading academic journals and is the English translator of Sartre’s book The Imaginary.

"The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, which confronts an impressive number of the major interpreters of Sartre, is an extremely valuable scholarly contribution to that study."

--Thomas C. Anderson, Marquette University for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews