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453 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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From the Dust Jacket: In Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir uses Jean-Paul Sartre's last ten years as a focus for understanding his entire life. Through her eyes, we see an intimate portrait of the man who was widely recognized as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century-the foremost philosopher of existentialism, a Nobel Prize-winning playwright, and a central figure in almost every major philosophical, political, literary,...
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xii, 244 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Most readers of Sartre focus only on the works written at the peak of his influence as a public intellectual in the 1940s, notably "Being and Nothingness". "Jean-Paul Sartre: Key Concepts" aims to reassess Sartre and to introduce readers to the full breadth of his philosophy. Bringing together leading international scholars, the book examines concepts from across Sartre's career, from his initial views on the "inner life" of conscious experience,...
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xvii, 574 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Traces the more than fifty-year relationship shared by the writing-philosophy duo, describing it was shaped by evolving modes of thought as well as Sartre's alcoholism, DeBeauvoir's lesbianism, and their controversial political affiliations.
7) The reprieve
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Chemins de la liberté volume 2
Physical Desc
445 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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The French existentialist recreates the shock and confusion of Europe in September of 1938 in a novel which centers on man's search for freedom.
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Chemins de la liberté volume 3
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421 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Sartre portrays the emotional and intellectual impact of the fall of France on one group of citizens.
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