Bloom's Modern Critical Views - Jean-Paul Sartre (2001) (203p) [Inua].pdf

Jean-Paul Sartre (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) Library Binding – January, 2001
by Harold Bloom (Editor)

Series: Bloom's Modern Critical Views
Library Binding: 220 pages
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications (January 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0791059170
ISBN-13: 978-0791059173

Editor's Note
My Introduction concludes that Sartre will ultimately be remembered for his literary biographies and
autobiographical writings, rather than for his novels and plays.
The French philosopher-critic Robert Champigny applies the philosophy of being to Le Diable et le bon Dieu, after
which Fredric Jameson comments on Sartre's methods of handling time in his works. Gary Woodle reviews the short
story Erostrate as a prelude to La Nausee {Nausea), and Dominick LaCapra argues that a knowledge of Sartre's
early theoretical studies is necessary to understand later works such as Being and Nothingness.
Sartre's "concept of the self" is examined by Hazel E. Barnes, after which S. Beynon John expounds on the
unfinished tetralogy Les Chemins de la liberte, and Catherine Savage Brosman finds in Kean a self-portrait of
Sartre, closely aligned with his concurrent work on The Words.
After Thomas B. Spademan explains how Sartre, in his Notebooks for an Ethics, expands on Marx's theory of rights in a capitalist society, Brian Seitz discusses Sartre and Nietzsche.
Walter Redfern looks into Sartre's "Le Mur," after which Marie McGinn provides her interpretation of Nausea and
Robert Pickering applies the Resistance concept of temoignage to Sartre's writings during the Second World War.
Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi's comments on feminine substance in Being and Nothingness conclude this volume.