Jean-Paul Sartre

✍ Scribed by Leak, Andrew N.;Sartre, Jean-Paul

Publisher: Reaktion Books
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Series: Critical Lives
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

"What I have just written is false. True. Neither true nor false, like everything one writes about madmen, about men." With these sentences, Jean-Paul Sartre undermines the truthfulness of his own autobiography, Les Mots. Undeterred by such circumlocutions, Andrew Leak here cuts through Sartre's own disavowals to unearth the man behind the literary and philosophical giant.

This biographical study integrates Sartre's works into his personal life, revealing the intimate contexts in which his philosophy developed. From Sartre's beginnings as a bright and precocious student, Leak explores how he struggled against the repressive strictures of bourgeois expectations, endured cruelty at the hands of schoolmates, and forged his conflicted personality within a fragmented family life. The book probes his particularly influential relationships with a range of people—from Simone de Beauvoir to Gaston Gallimard—and how Sartre was transformed by historical events, in particular...

✦ Subjects

Filozofowie--Francja--20 w;Biography;Biografia;Sartre, Jean-Paul -- (1905-1980);Filozofowie -- Francja -- 20 w

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