What is Literature? (Routledge Classics) - Softcover

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415254043 ISBN 13: 9780415254045

Verlag: Routledge, 2001

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Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political think ers of the twentieth century. His writings had a potency that was irresistible t o the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inher itance to contemporary thought. The central tenet of the Existentialist movement which he helped to found, whereby God is replaced by an ethical self, proved hu gely attractive to a generation that had seen the horrors of Nazism, and provoke d a revolution in post-war thought and literature. In What is Literature? Sar tre the novelist and Sartre the philosopher combine to address the phenomenon of literature, exploring why we read, and why we write.

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'This is a book that can neither be assimilated nor bypassed. There is probably no better way to encounter it than in this translation, with these notes and this introduction.' - Notes and Queries

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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) was the foremost French thinker of the early post-war years. His books, which include Being and Nothingness, Psychology of the Imagination, Nausea, Iron in the Soul and The Age of Reason, have exerted enormous influence in philosophy, literature, politics and cultural studies.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0415254043
• ISBN 13: 9780415254045
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288