The Cambridge Companion to Sartre

This is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date surveys of the philosophy of Sartre, by some of the foremost interpreters in the United States and Europe.

Christina Howells (Edited by)

9780521388122, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 August 1992

408 pages
22.7 x 14.9 x 2.6 cm, 0.6 kg

"...for those with some interest in his thought already, the book is well worth dipping into where the essays address topics of interest-- and those with a deeper interest in Sartre will want to read it from cover to cover. It certainly is a volume that belongs in every library collection, both graduate and undergraduate." Canadian Philosophical Review

This is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date surveys of the philosophy of Sartre, by some of the foremost interpreters in the United States and Europe. The essays are both expository and original, and cover Sartre's writings on ontology, phenomenology, psychology, ethics, and aesthetics, as well as his work on history, commitment, and progress; a final section considers Sartre's relationship to structuralism and deconstruction. Providing a balanced view of Sartre's philosophy and situating it in relation to contemporary trends in Continental philosophy, the volume shows that many of the topics associated with Lacan, Foucault, Levi-Strauss, and Derrida are to be found in the work of Sartre, in some cases as early as 1936. A special feature of the volume is the treatment of the recently published and hitherto little studied posthumous works.

Introduction Christina Howells
Part I. Phenomenology and Existentialism: 1. Sartre's ontology: the revealing and making of being Hazel E. Barnes
2. Role-playing: Sartre's transformation of Husserl's phenomenology Robert D. Cumming
3. Individuality in Sartre's philosophy Leo Fretz
Part II. Psychology and Ethics: 4. Sartre's moral psychology David A. Jopling
5. Understanding the committed writer Rhiannon Goldthorpe
6. Sartrean ethics Juliette Simont
Part III. History and Structure: 7. Sartre and the poetics of history Thomas R. Flynn
8. Sartre on progress Ronald Aronson
9. Sartrean structuralism? Peter Caws
Conclusion: Sartre and the deconstruction of the subject Christina Howells
Appendix: Hegel and Sartre Pierre Verstraeten.

Subject Areas: Phenomenology & Existentialism [HPCF3]