Sartre: A Philosophical Biography

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Regarded as the father of existentialist philosophy, he was also a political critic, moralist, playwright, novelist, and author of biographies and short stories. Thomas R. Flynn provides the first book-length account of Sartre as a philosopher of the imaginary, mapping the intellectual development of his ideas throughout his life, and building a narrative that is not only philosophical but also attentive to the political and literary dimensions of his work. Exploring Sartre's existentialism, politics, ethics, and ontology, this book illuminates the defining ideas of Sartre's oeuvre: the literary and the philosophical, the imaginary and the conceptual, his descriptive phenomenology and his phenomenological concept of intentionality, and his conjunction of ethics and politics with an 'egoless' consciousness. It will appeal to all who are interested in Sartre's philosophy and its relation to his life.

Author: Thomas R. Flynn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/03/2019
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 6.10h x 8.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781107476011

About the Author
Flynn, Thomas R.: - Thomas R. Flynn is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, Atlanta. He is the author of many articles and books, including Sartre and Marxist Existentialism: The Test Case of Collective Responsibility (1984), Sartre, Foucault and Historical Reason, Volume 1: Toward an Existentialist Theory of History (1997) and Sartre, Foucault and Historical Reason, Volume 2: A Poststructuralist Mapping of History (2005), and Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction (2006).