{"product_id":"the-desire-to-be-god-steven-laycock-9780820417110","title":"The Desire to Be God: Freedom and the Other in Sartre and Berdyaev","description":"Jean-Paul Sartre and Nicholas Berdyaev were contemporaries in the Paris of the thirties and forties. Sartre became the most famous existentialist author and was also a politically active Marxist. Berdyaev had been a Marxist and political activist but converted to Christianity and became one of the inspirations of the French personalist movement and a key exponent of religious existentialism. This study focuses on the central concern of both philosophers: the question of freedom. Sartre argued in \u003ci\u003eBeing and Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e that God is incompatible with human freedom. Berdyaev argues that God is not only compatible but necessary to freedom. This study reveals two ironies: Berdyaev's God is a more radical departure from traditional Western theism than Sartre's atheism. And Berdyaev's idea of freedom presents the more radical alternative to that tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Laycock, James McLachlan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820417114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820417110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Steven Laycock","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46465814954239,"sku":"9780820417110","price":73.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0085acbd-301c-49ee-a0fd-1d7b497915cc.jpg?v=1736347360","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-desire-to-be-god-steven-laycock-9780820417110","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}