Sartre in search of an ethics / by Paul Crittenden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crittenden, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980--Ethics.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Ethics.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2009]

Summary:

In the postwar years Jean-Paul Sartre set himself the task of writing a book on ethics. His concern was to take up issues raised by his existentialist ontology and to resolve problems in his bleak account of the human situation in Being and Nothingness. "I am searching," he said, "for an ethics for the present time." For several years he prepared background notes, but then put the material aside as too abstract and idealistic, leaving it for publication after his death. Years later he returned to ethics, this time in the hope of developing an account related to the Critique of Dialectical Reason. But once again he left the inquiry incomplete. There was yet a third attempt towards the end of his life when Sartre was blind and weak, a poignant witness to his abiding interest in ethics. This took the form of interviews with Benny Lévy, which appeared in a controversial publication just before his death. Sartre in Search of an Ethics is a study of each of these stages in his ethical quest, with a focus on the major themes of his existentialist and dialectical ethics in the context of some of his main philosophical and literary writings.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Part I (1939-1956)

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Part II (1957 - 1980)

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

References

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references ( pages [149]-154) and index.

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ISBN:

1-5275-3772-2

OCLC:

1165368319