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Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings
Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre (Author), Stephen Priest
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: November 23, 2000
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415213681
- ISBN-13: 9780415213684
Book Description
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 indispensable resource for all students and readers of his work. Stephen Priest's clear and helpful introductions set each reading in context, making the volume an ideal companion to those coming to Sartre's writings for the first time.
Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings is the first collection of Sartre's key philosophical writings and provides an indispensable resource for all students and readers of his work. Stephen Priest's clear and helpful introductions set each reading in context, making the volume an ideal companion to those coming to Sartre's writings for the first time.
Editorial Reviews
Review
."brings together just the texts, ordered in the right way, to draw the student into Sartre."
-John J. Compton, emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
"This immensely useful volume makes it possible for readers to get a substantial and comprehensive knowledge of Sartrean philosophy. It is a remarkable achievement."
- Hazel E. Barnes, University of Colorado at Boulder
..."this is a worthwhile and illuminating book."
-Baroness Mary Warnock
-John J. Compton, emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
"This immensely useful volume makes it possible for readers to get a substantial and comprehensive knowledge of Sartrean philosophy. It is a remarkable achievement."
- Hazel E. Barnes, University of Colorado at Boulder
..."this is a worthwhile and illuminating book."
-Baroness Mary Warnock
About the Author
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.
