How to Read Sartre (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393329520)

The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as Jean-Paul Sartre's pioneering thoughts on individual freedom, which served as a foundation for his role as the political champion of the oppressed.

Jean-Paul Sartre is best known as the pre-eminent philosopher of individual freedom. He is the one who told us that we are totally free. Robert Bernasconi shows how the early existentialist Sartre became in stages the political champion of the oppressed. Extracts are drawn from the full range of Sartre's writings including the novel Nausea, and the major philosophical text Being and Nothingness. They show why of all major twentieth-century philosophers Sartre was the one who most easily passed beyond the confines of the academy to a general readership.

Author: Robert Bernasconi
ISBN-10: 0393329526
ISBN-13: 9780393329520
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.96w x 0.38d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 5