Sartre

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Barnes, Hazel Estella, author

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Hazel E. Barnes, America's leading authority on Sartre, here examines his development as a philosopher, beginning with the crucial winter of 1940 when Sartre was a prisoner of war in Germany. As sh...

Hazel E. Barnes, America's leading authority on Sartre, here examines his development as a philosopher, beginning with the crucial winter of 1940 when Sartre was a prisoner of war in Germany. As she traces the evolution of his thought, she demonstrates the consistency between the various phases of Sartre's work, explaining how what he has written fits in with his political activity. She interrelates his literature and philosophy, illustrating with well-chosen examples both the way in which the literature illuminates the philosophy (and vice versa) and the relation between Sartre's theory of literature and the literary works themselves. The result is a comprehensive and highly readable introduction to the thought of a complex man of unique intellect. Moreover, it reveals why Sartre for so long has seemed to speak "directly to the condition" of widely differing groups while at the same time providing a new approach to traditional problems in Western philosophy.--Adapted from book jacket.

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