Sartre and Clio : encounters with history / Mark Hulliung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hulliung, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980--Political and social views.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Political and social views.

Physical Description:

ix, 159 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, [2013]

Summary:

In Nausea, the 1938 novel that made Sartre famous, the protagonist is a historian who abandons the biography he is writing because he comes to believe that all histories are fictional, escapist, and useless. By the time Sartre published his most mature works, he claimed to have written a biography that was perfectly true. He sought the one and only truth of history, a truth that would revolutionize the world. This book examines how and why Sartre's position on the possibility and worth of historical knowledge changed so dramatically. In addition, it illuminates Sartre's unique contribution to the grand debate between Marxist and anarchist revolutionaries-a debate that continues today. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: to historicize or not to historicize

From time to history

The historical search for the unhistorical

Human history and the human condition

History and revolution

History and a note on ethics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781612050447

1612050441

9781612050454

161205045X

OCLC:

793581490