Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings - Hardcover

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415213673 ISBN 13: 9780415213677

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415213673
• ISBN 13: 9780415213677
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Priest Stephen