Reading Sartre : on phenomenology and existentialism

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Title:

Reading Sartre : on phenomenology and existentialism

Author:

Webber, Jonathan.

ISBN:

9780415550956

9780415550963

9780203844144

Publication Information:

Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Physical Description:

x, 246 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents:

The ethics of authenticity / Christine Daigle -- Imagination in non-representational painting / Andreas Elpidorou -- What is it like to be free? / Matthew C. Eshleman -- The transcendental dimension of sartre's philosophy / Sebastian Gardner -- Being colonized / Azzedine Haddour -- A sartrean critique of introspection / Anthony Hatzimoysis -- Imagination and affective response / Robert Hopkins -- The significance of context in illustrative examples / Andrew Leak -- The graceful, the ungraceful, and the disgraceful / Katherine J. Morris -- Magic in sartre's early philosophy / Sarah Richmond -- Alienation, objectification, and the primacy of virtue / Alan Thomas -- Bad faith and the other / Jonathan Webber -- Pre-reflective self-consciousness and the autobiographical ego / Kenneth Williford -- Shame and the exposed self / Dan Zahavi.

Personal Subject:

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Subject Term:

Phenomenology.

Existentialism.

Added Author:

Webber, Jonathan.

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Summary

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The fourteen original essays in this volume focus on the phenomenological and existentialist writings of the first major phase of his published career, arguing with scholarly precision for their continuing importance to philosophical debate.

Aspects of Sartre's philosophy under discussion in this volume include:

consciousness and self-consciousness imagination and aesthetic experience emotions and other feelings embodiment selfhood and the Other freedom, bad faith, and authenticity literary fiction as philosophical writing

Reading Sartre: on Phenomenology and Existentialism is an indispensable resource for understanding the nature and importance of Sartre's philosophy. It is essential reading for students of phenomenology, existentialism, ethics, or aesthetics, and for anyone interested in the roots of contemporary thought in twentieth century philosophy.