Books by Jean Paul Sartre

Book SynopsisAlthough written fairly early in his career, in 1939, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is considered to be one of Jean-Paul Sartre''s most important pieces of writing. It not only anticipates but argues many of the ideas to be found in his famous Being and Nothingness. By subjecting the emotion theories of his day to critical analysis, Sartre opened up the world of psychology to new and creative ways of interpreting feelings. Emotions are intentional and strategic ways of coping with difficult situations. We choose to utilize them, we control them, and not the other way around, as has been posited elsewhere. Emotions are not fixed; they have no essence and indeed are subject to rapid fluctuations and about-turns. For its witty approach alone, Sartre''s Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions can be enjoyed at length. It is a dazzling journey to one of the more intriguing theories of our time.Trade Review'A model of lucid exposition, very well translated. The central thesis stands out with tempting clarity ... Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is certainly the best introduction available to the world of Being and Nothingness, and is also a useful guide to M. Sartre's more difficult views on the imagination.' - Times Literary Supplement'A driving force in all Sartre's writing is his serious desire to change the life of his reader.' - Iris Murdoch'The best source for Sartre's theoretical views on the nature of psychology.' - Mary Warnock, from the introduction

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Book SynopsisFrom one of the 20th century’s most profound philosophers and writers, comes a thought provoking essay that seeks to reconcile Marxism with existentialism. Exploring the complicated relationship the two philosophical schools of thought have with one another, Sartre supposes that the two are in fact compatible and complimentary towards one another, with poignant analysis and reasoning. An important work of modern philosophy, Search for a Method has a major influence on the current perceptions of existentialism and Marxism. “This is the most important philosophical work by Sartre to be translated since Being and Nothingness.”—James Collings, America

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Book SynopsisJean-Paul Sartre's famous autobiography of his first ten years has been widely compared to Rousseau's Confessions. Written when he was fifty-nine years old, The Words is a masterpiece of self-analysis. Sartre the philosopher, novelist and playwright brings to his own childhood the same rigor of honesty and insight he applied so brilliantly to other authors. Born into a gentle, book-loving family and raised by a widowed mother and doting grandparents, he had a childhood which might be described as one long love affair with the printed word. The Words explores and evaluates the whole use of books and language in human experience.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Entertaining...the characters are well observed and conscientiously and intelligently studied."-- Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker

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Book SynopsisWith a new preface by Michael WalzerJean-Paul Sartre's book is a brilliant portrait of both anti-Semite and Jew, written by a non-Jew and from a non-Jewish point of view. Nothing of the anti-Semite either in his subtle form as a snob, or in his crude form as a gangster, escapes Sartre's sharp eye, and the whole problem of the Jew's relationship to the Gentile is examined in a concrete and living way, rather than in terms of sociological abstractions.

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Book SynopsisJean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) ha sido uno de los intelectuales más influyentes en el pensamiento occidental. Desde muy joven emprendió una crítica a los valores y tradiciones de la clase social a la que él mismo pertenecía, la burguesía. Ya en sus primeros textos filosóficos, La imaginación (1936) y Bosquejo de una teoría de las emociones (1936) se percibe una originalidad de pensamiento que le conduce al existencialismo, cuyas tesis desarrollará en El Ser y la Nada (1943) y El existencialismo es un humanismo (1946). Su producción comprende tanto el ensayo filosófico, político y literario como el teatro, la narrativa y el guión cinematográfico. Sartre fue un hombre profunda y radicalmente comprometido con su tiempo, lo que le llevó también a dirigir Les Temps Modernes, La Cause du Peuple y Libération. En 1964 se le otorgó el Premio Nobel de Literatura, que rechazó.

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