Jean-Paul Sartre

A critical figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual.

Christine Daigle sets Sartre s thought in context, and considers a number of key ideas in detail, charting their impact and continuing influence, including:

• Sartre s theories of consciousness, being and freedom as outlined in Being and Nothingness and other texts
• the ethics of authenticity and absolute responsibility
• concrete relations, sexual relationships and gender difference, focusing on the significance of the alienating look of the Other
• the social and political role of the author
• the legacy of Sartre s theories and their relationship to structuralism and philosophy of mind.

Introducing both literary and philosophical texts by Sartre, this volume makes Sartre s ideas newly accessible to students of literary and cultural studies as well as to students of continental philosophy and French.