Efter ett kringflackande liv har Antoine Roquentin slagit sig ned i en liten fransk hamnstad. För att fördriva tiden sysslar han med att fullborda ett historiskt arbete, men det inger honom ingen tillfredsställelse. Historien är död för honom, även…
Existentialismen är en humanism är en populär startpunkt för att närma sig och diskutera existentialistiskt tänkande. Här återfinns resonemangen om friheten, valet och ångesten som människans existentiella livsvillkor, vilket sammanfattas i Jean-Pau…
Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, Nausea is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translat…
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of na…
Ett möte mellan de båda vännerna Raymond Aron och Jean-Paul Sartre på ett kafé i Paris vintern 1932 kom att få avgörande betydelse för den senares filosofiska utveckling. Aron vistades under denna tid i Berlin där han studerade Husserl och den tyska…
Revisit one of the most important pillars in modern philosophy with this new English translation--the first in more than 60 years--of Jean-Paul Sartre's seminal treatise on existentialism. "This is a philosophy to be reckoned with, both for its own…
Fantasy / Characters: 2 male, 2 femaleScenery: InteriorNo Exit was first presented in New York at the Biltmore Theatre with Claude Dauphin, Annabella, and Ruth Ford. Two women and one man are locked up together for eternity in one hideous room in he…
Pierre and Eve, soulmates who never met while alive, must come to grips with their deaths and the afterlife, and when they get a second chance and are revived, they have twenty-four hours to fall completely in love with one another.
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon s masterwork is a c…
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 r…
Over the past sixty years the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre have probably been more influential in the West than those of any other philosopher and literary figure. In his theoretical writings, Sartre laid the foundation for an original doctrine of E…
First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre’s L’Être et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition.…
Born in Paris in 1905, Sartre was a professor of philosophy when he joined the French Army at the outbreak of World War II. Captured by the Germans, he was released, after nearly a year, in 1941. He immediately joined the French resistance as a jour…
First published in France in 1937, this important essay marked a turning point in Sartre's philosophical development. Before writing it, he had been closely allied with phenomenologists such as Husserl and Heidegger. Here, however, Sartre attacked H…
Set in France during the days immediately before World War II, this is the story of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy obsessed with the idea of freedom. Translated from the French by Eric Sutton.
"'How are you?' said Mathieu. 'I thought you were dead.'"Following a Parisian philosophy teacher through the cafes and bars of Montparnasse over two days in the sweltering summer of 1938, Sartre's searing novel explores what it truly means to be fre…
The first volume in his Roads to Freedom trilogy, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Age of Reason is a philosophical novel exploring existentialist notions of freedom, translated by Eric Sutton with an introduction by David Caute in Penguin Modern Classics. Se…
First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre’s first and only collection of short fiction. The title piece tells the story of a prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, on…
A classic work by the founding father of existentialism, describing his philosophy and its relationship to Marxism.
Although written fairly early in his career, in 1939, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is considered to be one of Jean-Paul Sartre's most important pieces of writing. It not only anticipates but argues many of the ideas to be found in his famous…
Philosopher, novelist, dramatist and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the greatest writers of all time. He was fascinated by the role played by the emotions in human life and placed them at the heart of his philosophy. This brilliant short…
Auch mehr als fünfzig Jahre nach seiner Erstveröffentlichung in Deutschland vermittelt dieses Hauptwerk französischer Philosophie neue Denkimpulse. "Das Sein und das Nichts" stellt eindrucksvoll die unverminderte Aktualität Sartr…
After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the period before the First Wor…
Being and Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. The central work by one of the world's most influential thinkers, it altered the course of western philosophy. Its revolutionary approach challenged a…
Being and Nothingness may well be thought of as Sartre's greatest work; it has also come to be regarded as a text-book of existentialism itself, and this is for many reasons a proper way to read it. These pages set out with relative perspicuity almo…
Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, th…
Saint Genet is Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic biography of Jean Genet—thief, convict, and great artist—a character of almost legendary proportions whose influence grows stronger with time. Bringing together two of the century’s g…
La collection Conna tre une oeuvre vous offre la possibilit de tout savoir de Huis clos, de Jean-Paul Sartre, gr ce une fiche de lecture aussi compl te que d taill e. La r daction, claire et accessible, a t confi e un sp cialiste universitaire. Cett…
A cornerstone of Sartre’s philosophy, The Imaginary was first published in 1940. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of the 'intentionality of consciousness' as a key to t…
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Eksistentialisme er en humanisme foreligger nu i en ny udgave. Skriftet udkom første gang i 1946. Oversat fra fransk efter L'existensialisme et un humanisme af Anders Thuborg med forord af Jacob Dahl Rendtorff. 5. udgave indeholder desuden et efters…
Written in a French prison, this semi-autobiographical novel by the author of "Miracle of the Rose", "Funeral Rights", "Querelle of Brest" and "The Thief's Journal", describes the life of a young murderer.
D cryptez Huis clos avec l'analyse de Paideia ducation Que faut-il retenir de cette pi ce de Jean-Paul Sartre ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir de ce chef-d'oeuvre de la litt rature fran aise dans une analyse de r f rence pour comprendre rap…
‘No matter how long I may look at an image, I shall never find anything in it but what I put there. It is in this fact that we find the distinction between an image and a perception.' - Jean-Paul Sartre L’Imagination was published in 193…
Da den franske filosof Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) i 1943 udgav sit eksistentialistiske hovedværk Væren og Intet, stillede han en nærmere redegørelse for moralfilosofien i udsigt. Selv om han arbejdede alvorligt på projektet 1945-48, måtte han opgive…
Berlin, hvor han især studerede Edmund Husserl og Martin Heidegger. Her skrev Sartre Ego’ets transcendens, der i skitseform rummer grundtanken til hele hans senere filosofi. Det lille skrift er en slags programerklæring for Sartres efterfølgen…
First published in France in 1936 as a journal article, The Transcendence of the Ego was one of Jean-Paul Sartre's earliest philosophical publications. When it appeared, Sartre was still largely unknown, working as a school teacher in provincial Fra…
‘I should like to show here that the Ego is neither formally or materially in consciousness: it is outside, in the world.’ Jean-Paul Sartre The Transcendence of the Ego is one of Jean-Paul Sartre's earliest philosophical publications a…
Der weltberühmte Schriftsteller und Philosoph erzählt hier mit der Ironie eines Mannes, der alle Lügen seines Zeitalters und alle Illusionen, auch die eigenen, durchschaut hat, die Geschichte seiner Jugend. Eine faszinierende Studie &…
Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings had a potency that was irresistible to the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inheritance to…
What is writing? Why does one write? For whom? In this book Sartre examines the role of the writer in society with immense vigour and erudition.
A penetrating introductory discussion of Sartre's philosophy as it is illustrated in his plays and novels.
The Condemned of Altona is an act of judgment on the twentieth century, which might have been an admirable era (the closing lines tell us) if man had not been threatened by 'the cruel enemy who had sworn to destroy him, that hairless, evil, flesh-ea…
This is the first English translation of Sartre's unfinished fourth volume of "Roads to Freedom", exploring the interrelations of politics, responsibility; friendship and freedom - themes central to Sartrean existentialism. "Last Chance" brings to a…
With this volume, the University of Chicago Press completes its translation of a work that is of interest not only to serious readers of Flaubert but to anyone interested in the last major contribution by one of the twentieth century's greatest thin…
Seen by many as the culmination of Sartre's thought and project, and viewed by Sartre himself as an attempt to answer the question, "What, at this point in time, can we know about a man?" this monumental work continues to perplex its fascinated crit…
This unique selection presents the essential elements of Sartre's lifework -- organized systematically and made available in one volume for the first time in any language.
A brief, powerful analysis of three major twentieth-century writers: Dos Passos, Nabokov, and Faulkner. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth…
In this book, France's leading existentialist writer examines the function of consciousness in creating a world of unrealities. Sartre reveals a new way of conceiving of consciousness, the nature of psychic life, and the mind's complex relationship…
First published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartre’s most enduring concerns as a philosopher: politics and literature. With regard to the former, they develop the notion of…
