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Sartre’s Second Century
Author(s): Jean-Pierre Boulé (Author, Editor), Benedict O’Donohoe (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 28 May 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 230 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443801615
- ISBN-13: 9781443801614
Book Description
Sartre’s Second Century reflects the richness of Sartre’s vision of the human condition, the diversity of the means he employed in grappling with it, and the lengthy trajectory of his itinerary, in a variety of wider cultural perspectives. The centenary of Sartre’s birth in 2005 was the primary occasion for many of the essays included in this volume. Hosted by the UK or North American Sartre Societies, contributors participating in Sartre’s centennial celebrations were asked to address the central themes and overall development of his life and thought. As the present collection shows, the attempt to present Sartre in a retrospective light also provides a basis for assessing the relevance of his work for the new century.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘…this is a carefully edited and thoughtprovoking volume that will be a worthwhile if not absolutely essential addition to the everexpanding corpus of Sartre criticism.’ – Andrew Leak, French Studies, 67:3 (July 2013), 434.
About the Author
Benedict O’Donohoe took his degrees at the University of Oxford and is now Head of Modern Languages at the University of Sussex. He has published extensively in the UK, France, Canada, Japan, the USA and Australia, including a monograph, Sartre’s Theatre: Acts for Life, and a critical edition of the screenplay, Les Jeux sont faits. He has also given numerous papers at conferences in UK, Europe, North America and Japan, and is currently President of the UK Sartre Society and Reviews Editor of the journal Sartre Studies International. Roy Elveton is Maxine H. and Winston R. Wallin Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Carleton College. He has published The Phenomenology of Husserl (Noesis Press) and edited Educating for Participatory Democracy: Paradoxes in Globalizing Logic (Hampton Press). He is also the the author of numerous articles on Husserl, phenomenology, phenomenology of language, Nietzsche and cognitive science.
