| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"In this volume, Joseph Catalano offers an in-depth exploration of Jean-Paul Sartre's four major philosophical writings: Being and Nothingness, Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr, The Critique of Dialectical Reason, and The Family Idiot. These works have been immensely influential, but they are long and difficult and thus challenging for both students and scholars. Catalano here demonstrates the interrelation of these four works, their internal logic, and how they provide insights into important but overlooked aspects of Sartre's thought, such as the body, childhood, and evil. The book begins with Sartre's final work, The Family Idiot, and systematically works backward to Being and Nothingness. Catalano then repeats the study by advancing chronologically, beginning with Being and Nothingness and ending with The Family Idiot and an afterword on Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Readers will appreciate Catalano's subtle readings as well as the new insights that he brings to Sartre's oeuvre"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: A Retrospective Overview -- 1 The Family Idiot -- The wound -- The family project -- An idiot child? -- An idiot becoming a genius? -- Gustave and the birth of his genius -- The roots of Gustaves genius: the progressive-regressive method -- The evidence for our speculations -- A dialectic of freedom: the spiral leading to madame bovary -- Madame bovary: the embodiment of art for arts sake -- 2 Saint Genet:160;Actor and Martyr -- The event -- Thief? 8220;Yes,8221; and saint too! -- 8220;A daily labor, long and disappointing8221; -- The dialectic of evil and saintliness -- The gesture and the ugly -- The last conversion:160;the written word -- Sartres evaluation -- 3 The Critique of Dialectical Reason -- An Introductory overview -- The practico-inert -- Scarcity -- Seriality -- A digression:160;freedom and history -- The group-infusion -- The 8220;critique8221; of dialectical reason -- 4 Being and Nothingness -- To whom is being and nothingness addressed? -- 8220;Our8221; freedom:160;an initial view -- Our fundamental project -- Prereflective and reflective awareness -- Introspection -- Bad faith -- The look -- The we and the us -- Concrete relations with others -- A brief conclusion -- Part Two: The works Themselves -- 5 Being and Nothingness -- Background:160;Husserl and Heidegger -- On Reading being and nothingness -- The Introduction, Part One, and Part Two -- Parts Three, Four, and Conclusion -- 6 The Critique of Dialectical Reason -- The Search for a Method: The progressive-regressive method -- Critique 1 -- Books One and Two -- Critique 2 -- 7 Saint Genet:160;Actor and Martyr -- Saint Genet -- 8 The Family Idiot: Part One Constitution -- The Physical Appearance -- How the Physical Appearance of the Work Reflects Its 8220;Logic8221; -- Volume I: Part one Constitution -- 9 The Family Idiot: Concluded -- Volumes 24:160;Personalization to Last Spiral -- Volume 5:160;Objective Neurosis and the Second Empire -- Afterword: Madame Bovary -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
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Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Catalano, Joseph S. Reading Sartre. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521766463 (DLC) 2010014790 (OCoLC)607656308 |
| ISBN |
9780511932595 (electronic book) |
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0511932596 (electronic book) |
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9780511779497 (electronic book) |
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0511779496 (electronic book) |
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9780521766463 |
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052176646X |
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9780521152273 |
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0521152275 |
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40018054092 |
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1805409204 |
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9781805409205 |
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