Existentialism, 70 years after / Lauren Du Graf, Julia Elsky, and Clémentine Fauré, special editors for this issue.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Du Graf, Lauren, editor.

Elsky, Julia, editor.

Fauré, Clémentine, editor.

Series:

Yale French studies ; no. 135-136.

Yale French studies, 0044-0078 ; numbers 135 & 136

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Existentialism.

Philosophy--France.

Philosophy.

France.

Physical Description:

270 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Existentialism, seventy years after

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Editors' preface : the new lives of Existentialism / Lauren du Graf, Julia Elsky, Clémentine Fauré

The moviegoers : Paris, 1945 / Alice Kaplan

Marketing Existentialism, 1945-1951 / Anne Quinney

The absurd : postwar reception and wartime echoes at Yale French Studies / Julia Elsky

Beauvoir's long march / Margaret A. Simons

What Existentialism meant to us / Victor Brombert

Avatars of Existentialism / François Noudelmann

Acknowledging the other : reading, writing, and living in the Mandarins / Toril Moi

French- and Francophone-influenced Africana and Black Existentialism / Lewis R. Gordon

Existentialism's "white problem" : Richard Wright and Jean-Paul Sartre's The Respectful Prostitute / Lauren du Graf

Richard Wright as educator : the progressive structure of Simone de Beauvoir's account of racial hatred in the United States / Robert Bernasconi

Arab Existentialism : what was it? / Yoav Di-Capua

The Meursault investigation : literature and the disappeared / Kathryn Lachman

Levinas and Sartre: Existentialism after the Stalag / Sarah Hammerschlag

"Like a weed on the compost of Catholicity" : Sartre's self-division and France's religious divide / Clémentine Fauré

De immundo: Georges Bataille's Gnostic Existentialism / Bruno Chaouat.

Notes:

The ISSN for the series is printed incorrectly as 044-0078 on the title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0300242662

9780300242669

OCLC:

1090436154