Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosophy & Existentialism

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Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophy & Existentialism

Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.”

Sartre, Search for a Method (1960)

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Books by Sartre
Nausea
Perhaps the best known and most philosophical of Sartre's novels. A classic piece of existentialist literature.
Being & Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology
Sartre's existentialist magnum opus. The principal theoretical text of his early period, it deals with the relationship between phenomenology and ontology and lays the foundations for the development of an existential psychoanalysis.
Notebooks for an Ethics
Unfinished and published posthumously, these notebooks contain sketches for the existentialist ethic famously promised by Sartre toward the end of Being & Nothingness.
Truth & Existence
Partly influenced by Heidegger's 'The Essence of Truth', these unfinished and posthumously published notes contain a fascinating attempt by Sartre to develop the concept of truth inherent in Being & Nothingness.
No Exit & Three Other Plays
Including 'No Exit', perhaps Sartre's best known play, 'The Respectful Prostitute', 'The Flies' and 'Dirty Hands'.
What is Literature and Other Essays
Sartre's much discussed attempt to provide an analysis of the role of the modern author.
The Age of Reason
Part I of the Roads to Freedom series of novels.
The Reprieve
Part II of the Roads to Freedom series of novels.
Troubled Sleep
Part III of the Roads to Freedom series of novels.
The Wall & Other Stories
Including 'The Wall', 'The Room', 'Erostratus', 'Intimacy' and 'The Childhood of a Leader'.
Essays in Existentialism
A collection of essays and excerpts from other texts.
Existentialism & Human Emotions
A collection of essays and excerpts from other texts.
Baudelaire
An early application of Sartre's existential psychoanalysis which prefigures much of the analysis of his later biography of Jean Genet.
Anti-Semite & Jew
An excellent, and highly readable, application of Sartre's method of existential analysis to the character of the anti-semite.
The Transcendence of the Ego
Sartre's first philosophical book, dealing with the phenomenology of self-consciousness it marks the beginning of his departure from classical Husserlian phenomenology and the emergence of his existential-phenomenology.
Hope Now: The 1980 Interviews
A controversial series of interviews with Benny Levy in which Sartre, just before his death, seems to renounce his earlier socialist philosophy in favour of a form of mysticism.
The Family Idiot : Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, vol. I
The Family Idiot : Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, vol. II
The Family Idiot : Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, vol. III
The Family Idiot : Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, vol. IV
The Family Idiot : Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, vol. V
Sartre's mammoth five volume psychoanalytic/Marxist/existentialist biography of Gustave Flaubert.
Search for a Method
Originally intended as a postscript to The Critique of Dialectical Reason, this text introduces Sartre's conception of Marxist dialectics.
Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 1: Theory of Practical Ensembles
Sartre's monumental attempt to synthesise his existential anthropology with a Marxist dialectical conception of social history.
The Words
Sartre's autobiography of his childhood.

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Books about Sartre
Schilpp, P.A. (ed.), Philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre
A first-rate collection of academic essays on Sartre's thought, including a response by Sartre himself.
Laing, R.D. & Cooper, D., Reason & Violence
A fascination commentary on three texts by Sartre: Saint Genet, Search for a Method, and the Critique of Dialectical Reason.