Jean-Paul Sartre
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Sartre : Critique of Dialectical Reason
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In this vast survey, Jean-Paul Sartre seeks to understand how individual freedom is embedded in history and in collective structures. In critical dialogue with Marxism, he analyses praxis, rarity, groups, institutions and conflicts in order to lay the foundations for historical anthropology. The book is preceded by "Questions of method", where Sartre describes the relationship between existentialism and dialectical …
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Sartre : Existentialism Is a Humanism
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Originally, it was a worldly conference before the Club now in 1947. In this essay, Sartre defines his conception of existentialist philosophy. After distinguishing two existentialist currents, one Christian, the other atheist, of which Sartre himself claims to be, from a basic definition: "existence precedes essence".
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Sartre : Being and Nothingness
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"Being can only generate being and, if man is embedded in this generational process, he will only emerge from being. If he is to be able to question this process, that is to say, to question it, he must be able to hold it under his sight as a whole, that is, to put himself outside of it and thereby weaken the structure of being it. However, it is not given to the "human reality" to destroy, even temporarily, the mas…
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Sartre : A Plea for Intellectuals
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Why re-edit this little book, published in 1972, when we are living in a time of widespread disenchantment towards intellectuals? Because it was necessary to recall the definition of the "universal intellectual" defended by Sartre. As it was often caricatured, it was necessary that we return to the source and highlight its lines of force. Jean-Paul Sartre asks three important questions here – and tries to answer the…
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