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The Age of Reason: Popular Penguins by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Display & Gift | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reasonfollows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in t ...Show more
The Freud Scenario by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Film & TV
In 1958, John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a script for a movie about Sigmund Freud. The Freud Scenario, found among Sartre's papers after his death, is the result. A fluent portrait of a man engaged in a personal and intellectual struggle that was to change the course of twentieth-century tho ...Show more
The Imaginary by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
Translated by Jonathan Webber, with introductions by Arlette Elkaim-Sartre and Jonathan WebberWe may therefore conclude that imagination is not an empirical power added to consciousness but it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes freedom.' Jean Paul SartreA cornerstone of Sartre's philosophy. Th ...Show more
The Reprieve (The Roads to Freedom Vol 2) by Jean Paul Sartre
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
It is September 1938 and during a heatwave, Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris, people are waiting too, among them Mathieu, Jacques and Philippe, each wrestling with their own love affairs, doubts and angsts - and none of t ...Show more
The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet; Jean-Paul Sartre (Foreword by); Patti Smith (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction
The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel; an account of his impoverished travels across 1930s Europe. The narrator is guilty of vagrancy, petty theft and prostitution, but his writing transforms such degradations into an inverted moral code, where criminality ...Show more
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon ; Jean-Paul Sartre (Preface by)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autob ...Show more
Venice and Rome by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Travel
Iconic French novelist, playwright and essayist, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, whose work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the decades. The Seagull Sartre Library now presents some of his most inci ...Show more
We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre 1939-1975 by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"One of the most brilliant and versatile writers as well as one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century." -Times (London) Philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, journalist, and activist, Jean-Paul Sartre was also-and perhaps above all-a great essayist. The essay was uniquely suite ...Show more
What Is Subjectivity? by Jean-Paul Sartre; Fredric Jameson (Afterword by); Michel Kail (Introduction by); Raoul Kirchmayr (Introduction by)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Jean-Paul Sartre, at the height of his powers, debates with Italy s leading intellectuals In 1961, the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. In attendance were some of Italy s leading Marxist thinkers, such as Enzo Paci, Cesare Luporin ...Show more
What is Literature? by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings had a potency that was irresistible to the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inheritance to contemporary thought. The central tenet of the Existen ...Show more
Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. This work provides background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century.