{"product_id":"sartre-the-philosopher-of-the-twentieth-century-hardback-9780745630090","title":"Sartre; The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century (Hardback) 9780745630090","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSartre\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Philosopher of the Twentieth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBernard-Henri Levy (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745630090, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 July 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e544 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 4.5 cm, 0.93 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The book's enthusiasm is infectious. It delves sympathetically into Sartre's ideas and makes a strong case for their importance.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This biography of the French guru is brilliant.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Walden, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Enthralling, absolutely enthralling.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Sauvage, \u003ci\u003eLe Journal du Dimanche\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Bernard-Henri Lévy wonderfully resurrects Jean-Paul as a colossus bestriding the age...It would be hard to imagine a better translation of BHL oracular French. Andrew Brown succeeds in bringing Lévy so flamingly to life as a passionately engaged and combative speaker that you can hear him holding forth on the other side of the table in the Flore or the Deux Magots\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndy Martin, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sartre, who had refused all kinds of introspection, is here thoroughly revisited in both his life and work. In this journey through the century in which Sartre lived, one learns as much about the twentieth century as one does about Sartre. This is Bernard Henri Lévy at his very best.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarcel Neusch, \u003ci\u003eLa Croix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Levy is seldom a less than engaging guide to the drama of the rise and fall of one of the last century's most prominent writers and thinkers\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAengus Collins, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A whole man, made of all men, worth all of them, and any one of them worth him.\" This was how Jean-Paul Sartre characterized himself at the end of his autobiographical study, Words. And Bernard-Henri Levy shows how Sartre cannot be understood without taking into account his relations with the intellectual forebears and contemporaries, the lovers and friends, with whom he conducted a lifelong debate. His thinking was essentially a tumultuous dialogue with his whole age and himself. He learned from Gide the art of freedom, and how to experiment with inherited fictional forms. He was a fellow-traveller of communism, and yet his relations with the Party were deeply ambiguous. He was fascinated by Freud but trenchantly critical of psychoanalysis. Beneath Sartre's complex and ever-mutating political commitments, Levy detects a polarity between anarchic individualism on the one hand, and a longing for absolute community that brought him close to totalitarianism on the other. Levy depicts Sartre as a man who could succumb to the twentieth century's catastrophic attraction to violence and the false messianism of its total political solutions, while also being one of the fiercest critics of its illusions and shortcomings.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrologue 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I \"The Man, a Century\" 7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Sartre's Fame 9 \u003cp\u003e2 Stendhal and Spinoza 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Taking Leave of Gide 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 A \"German\" Philosopher 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Note on the Heidegger Question 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Justice for Jean-Paul Sartre 163\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Existentialism is an Anti-humanism 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 What is a Monster? (biographical fragments) 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Anti-fascist from Beginning to End 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Note on the Vichy Question: Sartre in the Resistance 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Sartre, Now 295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III The Madness of the Age 321\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Another Sartre (snapshots) 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 On the Workings of Error in the Life of an Intellectual 355\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Confession 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Sartre's Failure 412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Requiem for literature 445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue (The Blind Philosopher) 476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes 503\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex 527\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52503008411928,"sku":"9780745630090","price":24.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745630090.jpg?v=1786323587","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sartre-the-philosopher-of-the-twentieth-century-hardback-9780745630090","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}