Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century Paperback - 2003
by Bernard-Henri Levy
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Sartre was forty years old.
From the rear cover
'A whole man, made of all men, worth all of them, and any one of them worth him.' This was how Jean-Paul Sartre characterized himself at the end of his autobiographical study, Words. And Bernard-Henri Lvy shows how Sartre cannot be understood without taking into account his relations with the intellectual forebears and contemporaries, the lovers and friends, with whom he conducted a lifelong debate. His thinking was essentially a tumultuous dialogue with his whole age and himself. He learned from Gide the art of freedom, and how to experiment with inherited fictional forms. He was a fellow-traveller of communism, and yet his relations with the Party were deeply ambiguous. He was fascinated by Freud but trenchantly critical of psychoanalysis. Beneath Sartre's complex and ever-mutating political commitments, Lvy detects a polarity between anarchic individualism on the one hand, and a longing for absolute community that brought him close to totalitarianism on the other. Lvy depicts Sartre as a man who could succumb to the twentieth century's catastrophic attraction to violence and the false messianism of its total political solutions, while also being one of the fiercest critics of its illusions and shortcomings.
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- Title Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century
- Author Bernard-Henri Levy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First English Ed
- Pages 536
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, United Kingdom
- Date 2003-09-11
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780745630090 / 074563009X
- Weight 2.01 lbs (0.91 kg)
- Dimensions 9.14 x 6.38 x 1.93 in (23.22 x 16.21 x 4.90 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002154488
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
Citations
- Choice, 03/01/2004, Page 1310
- Library Journal, 07/15/2003, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 07/15/2003, Page 0
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