Sartre's Life, Times and Vision du Monde

by McBride,William L.

• ISBN13: 9780815324935
• ISBN10: 0815324936
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

William L. McBrideProfessor of Philosophy at Purdue University, is co-founder of the North American Sartre Society, and the first chairperson of its executive board. His most recent publications include Social and Political Philosophy and Sartre's Political Theory. He was recently named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Government, and has served as Chairperson of the Committee on International Cooperation of the American Philosophical Association and as President of the Societe Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Francaise.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction	vii
Volume Introduction	xi
French Existentialism	2	(3)
Hannah Arendt
Existence and Human Freedom	5	(44)
Gabriel Marcel
Jean-Paul Sartre and Existential Philosophy	49	(16)
Ian W. Alexander
French Existentialism Before Sartre	65	(10)
Herbert Dieckmann
Existentialism---A Literature of Despair?	75	(12)
Henri Peyre
Using Sartre's Regressive/Progressive Method Against Him: From Guilt to Commitment	87	(8)
John Gerassi
Sartre's War Diaries: Prelude and Postscript	95	(19)
Hazel Barnes
Sartre and America	114	(19)
Giovanni Invitto
William L. McBride
Apostles of Sartre: Advocates of Early Sartreanism in American Philosophy	133	(16)
Ann Fulton
Personal Recollections	149	(12)
Hazel E. Barnes
Towards a Biography of Sartre: Practical and Critical Problems	161	(9)
Michel Rybalka
Sartre and the Question of Biography	170	(36)
Dominick LaCapra
Tracking Down a Willing and Reluctant Hero	206	(11)
Annie Cohen-Solal
The Second Death of Jean-Paul Sartre	217	(10)
John Gerassi
Sartre and the Existential Approach	227	(13)
Xavier O. Monasterio
From ``The Legend of Truth'' to a ``True Legend'': Phases of Sartre's Development	240	(21)
Istvan Meszaros
L'Imagination au Pouvoir: The Evolution of Sartre's Political and Social Thought	261	(25)
Thomas R. Flynn
Sartre on Violence and Fraternity	286	(15)
Eleanor H. Kuykendall
Sartre's Last Word on Ethics in Phenomenological Perspective	301	(19)
Herbert Spiegelberg
Community: The Dialectic of Abandonment and Hope in Light of Sartre's Last Words	320	(15)
William L. McBride
J.-P. Sartre as Jew	335	(36)
Steven S. Schwarzschild
Acknowledgments	371