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Sartre The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century

Levy Bernard-Henri
Innbundet / 2003 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780745630090
Publisert
2003-07-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Polity Press
Vekt
930 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
45 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
544

Forfatter
Levy Bernard-Henri

Om bidragsyterne

Bernard-Henri Levy is a philosopher and a writer. He is a member of the Selection Committee of the Editions Grasset, and he runs La Regle du Jeu magazine. He writes a weekly column in the magazine, Point and chairs the Conseil de Surveillance of La Sept-Arte.

Sartre The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century

Levy Bernard-Henri
Innbundet / 2003 / Engelsk
Levy Bernard-Henri
Innbundet / 2003 / Engelsk
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"The book's enthusiasm is infectious. It delves sympathetically into Sartre's ideas and makes a strong case for their importance." <br /> <p><i><b>The Economist</b></i><br /> </p> <p>"This biography of the French guru is brilliant."<br /> </p> <p><b>George Walden, <i>The Sunday Telegraph</i></b><br /> </p> <p>"Enthralling, absolutely enthralling."<br /> </p> <p><b>Christian Sauvage, <i>Le Journal du Dimanche</i></b><br /> </p> <p>"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"<br /> </p> <p><b>Andy Martin, <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br /> </p> <p>"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."<br /> </p> <p><b>Marcel Neusch, <i>La Croix</i></b><br /> </p> <p><br /> </p> <p>"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"<br /> </p> <p><b>Aengus Collins, <i>Irish Times</i></b></p>

"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.
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In this ground--breaking biography, 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.
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Prologue 1

Part I "The Man, a Century" 7

1 Sartre's Fame 9

2 Stendhal and Spinoza 42

3 Taking Leave of Gide 74

4 A "German" Philosopher 102

5 Note on the Heidegger Question 134

Part II Justice for Jean-Paul Sartre 163

1 Existentialism is an Anti-humanism 165

2 What is a Monster? (biographical fragments) 202

3 Anti-fascist from Beginning to End 238

4 Note on the Vichy Question: Sartre in the Resistance 269

5 Sartre, Now 295

Part III The Madness of the Age 321

1 Another Sartre (snapshots) 323

2 On the Workings of Error in the Life of an Intellectual 355

3 The Confession 381

4 Sartre's Failure 412

5 Requiem for literature 445

Epilogue (The Blind Philosopher) 476

Notes 503

Index 527

Les mer
‘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 Lévy 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, Lévy 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. Lévy 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.
Les mer

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"The book's enthusiasm is infectious. It delves sympathetically into Sartre's ideas and makes a strong case for their importance." <br /> <p><i><b>The Economist</b></i><br /> </p> <p>"This biography of the French guru is brilliant."<br /> </p> <p><b>George Walden, <i>The Sunday Telegraph</i></b><br /> </p> <p>"Enthralling, absolutely enthralling."<br /> </p> <p><b>Christian Sauvage, <i>Le Journal du Dimanche</i></b><br /> </p> <p>"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"<br /> </p> <p><b>Andy Martin, <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br /> </p> <p>"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."<br /> </p> <p><b>Marcel Neusch, <i>La Croix</i></b><br /> </p> <p><br /> </p> <p>"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"<br /> </p> <p><b>Aengus Collins, <i>Irish Times</i></b></p>

"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.
Les mer
In this ground--breaking biography, 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.
Les mer
Prologue 1

Part I "The Man, a Century" 7

1 Sartre's Fame 9

2 Stendhal and Spinoza 42

3 Taking Leave of Gide 74

4 A "German" Philosopher 102

5 Note on the Heidegger Question 134

Part II Justice for Jean-Paul Sartre 163

1 Existentialism is an Anti-humanism 165

2 What is a Monster? (biographical fragments) 202

3 Anti-fascist from Beginning to End 238

4 Note on the Vichy Question: Sartre in the Resistance 269

5 Sartre, Now 295

Part III The Madness of the Age 321

1 Another Sartre (snapshots) 323

2 On the Workings of Error in the Life of an Intellectual 355

3 The Confession 381

4 Sartre's Failure 412

5 Requiem for literature 445

Epilogue (The Blind Philosopher) 476

Notes 503

Index 527

Les mer
‘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 Lévy 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, Lévy 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. Lévy 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.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780745630090
Publisert
2003-07-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Polity Press
Vekt
930 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
45 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
544

Forfatter
Levy Bernard-Henri

Om bidragsyterne

Bernard-Henri Levy is a philosopher and a writer. He is a member of the Selection Committee of the Editions Grasset, and he runs La Regle du Jeu magazine. He writes a weekly column in the magazine, Point and chairs the Conseil de Surveillance of La Sept-Arte.

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