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Existentialism Is a Humanism Paperback - 2007

by Jean-Paul Sartre; Carol Macomber (Translator); Introduction by Annie Cohen-Solal


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A fresh translation of two seminal works of existentialism "To understand Jean-Paul Sartre is to understand something important about the present time."--Iris Murdoch "Sartre matters because so many fundamental points of his analysis of the human reality are right and true, and because their accuracy and veracity entail real consequences for our lives as individuals and in social groups."--Benedict O'Donohoe, Philosophy Now It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominent European intellectual of the post-World War II decades, accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture ("Existentialism Is a Humanism") was to expound his philosophy as a form of "existentialism," a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for philosophers, though, ironically, he was about to make it accessible to a general audience. The published text of his lecture quickly became one of the bibles of existentialism and made Sartre an international celebrity. The idea of freedom occupies the center of Sartre's doctrine. Man, born into an empty, godless universe, is nothing to begin with. He creates his essence--his self, his being--through the choices he freely makes ("existence precedes essence"). Were it not for the contingency of his death, he would never end. Choosing to be this or that is to affirm the value of what we choose. In choosing, therefore, we commit not only ourselves but all of mankind. This book presents a new English translation of Sartre's 1945 lecture and his analysis of Camus's The Stranger, along with a discussion of these works by acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal. This edition is a translation of the 1996 French edition, which includes Arlette Elkam-Sartre's introduction and a Q&A with Sartre about his lecture.

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  • Title Existentialism Is a Humanism
  • Author Jean-Paul Sartre; Carol Macomber (Translator); Introduction by Annie Cohen-Solal
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Date 2007-07-24
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780300115468 / 0300115466
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.4 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 1.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Existentialism, Camus, Albert
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007002684
  • Dewey Decimal Code 142.78

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Philosopher, playwright, and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was the most dominant European intellectual for the three decades following World War II. In 1964, he was awarded but declined the Nobel Prize in Literature. Annie Cohen-Solal is the author of the acclaimed Sartre: A Life, an international best-seller that has been translated into sixteen languages.
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