Sartre Explained: From Bad Faith to Authenticity
"David Detmer's Sartre Explained is undoubtedly the best introduction to Jean-Paul Sartre's ideas available today. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Sartre. It not only provides an invaluable resource for students confronting Sartre's difficult technical vocabulary, but Sartre scholars will also find it illuminating."\ —Matthew Eshleman, University of North Carolina at Wilmington\ "Detmer explores the implications of Sartre's work both for ourselves and for our world, and in so...
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Jean-Paul Sartre is perhaps the most famous of the existentialists, and by far the most famous philosopher of the post-war era. Sartre was a highly prolific writer and thinker, and delving into his novels, plays, stories, essays, and memoirs can be challenging. Most books on Sartre focus on only one sphere of his astounding intellect — either his philosophical treatises or his forays into fiction. Enter Sartre Explained, a comprehensive guide to Sartre's versatile work, as well as a valuable overview of his life and scholarly context. Detailing the philosophical notions central to all of Sartre's work, including his fictional pieces, this guide is an essential resource for anyone interested in Sartre's full range of talents.
Acknowledgments viiAbbreviations ixIntroduction 1Sartre's Reputation 4Why Read Sartre? 15Phenomenology 17The Transcendence of the Ego 19Intentionality 29The Emotions 35Imagination and The Imaginary 46Nausea 51Absurdity 55Life and Art 58Why Write? 60Being and Nothingness 63Interrogation 65Destruction 66Absence 67Anguish 70Bad Faith 75Knowledge 89Others 92The Body 96Concrete Relations with Others 103Freedom 110Existential Psychoanalysis 122Ethics 134No Exit 143A Philosophical Play 145Bad Faith Dramatized 147Hell Is Other People 149Death 153The Devil and the Good Lord 159Atheism 162Conversion 163Good and Evil 165Violence 169Saint Genet 173Existential Psychoanalysis Illustrated 174Inventing the Homosexual Subject 178Freedom and Facticity 178Understanding that Overcomes Difference 181Critique of Dialectical Reason 187Marxism 188Dialectic 189Practico-Inert and Counter-Finality 191The Progressive-Regressive Method 193Criticisms of Marxism 194Two Kinds of Freedom 196Scarcity and Violence 198Totalization 200Series and Group 201The Ethics of Violence 203Inauthenticity 211Propaganda 212Priorities 213Suggestions for Further Readings 217By Sartre 217About Sartre 224Index 229
