Sartre: The Necessity of Freedom
This book is a comprehensive study of the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre. As well as examining the drama and the fiction, the book analyses the evolution of his philosophy, explores his concern with ethics, psychoanalysis, literary theory, biography and autobiography and includes a lengthy section on the still much-neglected study of Flaubert, L'Idiot de la famille. One important aim of the book is to rebut the charges made by many theorists and philosophers by revealing that Sartre is in fact...
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Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher, writer, dramatist and political activist, is regarded as one of the foremost figures in modern French literature and culture. His major works as a writer include Nausea and Roads to Freedom, and as a dramatist, Les Mains Sales. This exciting and accessible collection of essays, from French and American as well as British authors, brings together some of the best contemporary critics of Sartre's literary works. Using a wide variety of modern theoretical and critical approaches, the essays examine Sartre's work as literature, rather than as illustrations of his philosophical treatises. From semiotics to deconstruction, from pragmatics to psychoanalysis, these highly readable essays apply some of the most up-to-date approaches in contemporary critical thinking to Sartre's novels, plays, literary theory and autobiography. Several of the essays deal in different ways with the same text, demonstrating a wide spectrum of critical approach and producing varied but complementary interpretations of the major works.
General Editor's PrefacePrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction11Of stones and stories: Sartre's La Nausee152La Nausee: 'Une Autre Espece de livre'293Sartre's La Nausee: Fragment of an analytical reading494La Nausee and the question of closure585Politics and the private self in Sartre's Les Chemins de la liberte666Crime: a floating signifier in Sartre's Les Mouches857Huis clos: Distance and ambiguity978Reference vs repetition, or the predicament of the actor1129The revolutionary hero revisited12310Three methods in Sartre's literary criticism13611Applying the tourniquet: Sartre and punning16012A parodic strategy - Sartre's Les Mots16813Philosophy and auto(bio)graphy: The exemplary case of Jean-Paul Sartre18614The dialectic of narcissism20015The staging of desire211Glossary234Notes on Contributors238Bibliography241Index247
