Sartre explained : from bad faith to authenticity / David Detmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Detmer, David, 1958-

Series:

Ideas explained series ; 6.

Ideas explained series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Physical Description:

xi, 233 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, [2008]

Summary:

"A guide to the work of Jean-Paul Sartre addressing his major theories and how the different strands of his thought are interrelated, and overviewing works from all of his literary genres including philosophical writings, novels, and plays"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Phenomenology

The transcendence of the ego

Intentionality

The emotions

Imagination and The imaginary

Nausea

Absurdity

Life and art

Why write?

Being and nothingness

Interrogation

Destruction

Absence

Anguish

Bad faith

Knowledge

Others

The body

Concrete relations with others

Freedom

Existential psychoanalysis

Ethics

No exit

A philosophical play

Bad faith dramatized

Hell is other people

Death

The devil and the good Lord

Atheism

Conversion

Good and evil

Violence

Saint Genet

Existential psychoanalysis illustrated

Inventing the homosexual subject

Freedom and facticity

Understanding that overcomes difference

Critique of dialectical reason

Marxism

Dialectic

Practico-inert and counter-finality

The progressive-regressive method

Criticisms of Marxism

Two kinds of freedom

Scarcity and violence

Totalization

Series and group

The ethics of violence

Inauthenticity

Propaganda

Priorities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index.

ISBN:

9780812696318

081269631X

OCLC:

179787157