A Preface to Sartre / Dominick LaCapra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LaCapra, Dominick., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Perhaps the leading Western intellectual of his time, Jean-Paul Sartre has written highly influential works in a diverse number of subject areas: philosophy, literature, biography, autobiography, and the theory of history. The concise and lucidly-written A Preface to Sartre discusses the French philosopher's contributions in all of these fields. Making imaginative use of the insights of some of the most important contemporary French thinkers (notably Jacques Derrida), Dominick LaCapra seeks to bring about an active confrontation between Sartre and his critics in terms that transcend the opposition between existentialism and structuralism. Referring wherever appropriate to important events in Sartre's life, he illuminates such difficult works as Being and Nothingness and the Critique of Dialectical Reason, and places Sartre in relation to the traditions that he has explicitly rejected. LaCapra also offers close and sensitive interpretations of Nausea, of the autobiography, The Words, and of Sartre's biographical studies of Baudelaire, Genet, and Flaubert. "I envision intellectual history," writes laCapra, "as a critical, informed, and stimulating conversation with the past through the medium of the texts of major thinkers. Who else in our recent past is a more fascinating interlocutor than Sartre?"

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations for Sartre's Works

Introduction

1 . Early Theoretical Studies: Art Is a n Unreality

2. Literature, Language, and Politics: Ellipses of What?

3. Nausea : "Une Autre Espéce de Livre"

4. From Being and Nothingness to the Critique: Breaking Bones in One's Head

5. Autobiography and Biography: Self and Other

6. In Lieu of a Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb. 24, 2017)

ISBN:

1-5017-0521-0

OCLC:

966938722