{"product_id":"the-early-sartre-and-marxism-9783039111152","title":"The Early Sartre and Marxism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the middle of the 1940s onwards, Sartre became the personification of the committed intellectual, courageously taking public positions on many of the pressing issues of his time. In the 1950s and 1960s, the theoretical basis for his political commitment lay in his existentialist brand of Marxism, which received its most mature formulation in the \u003ci\u003eCritique of Dialectical Reason\u003c\/i\u003e. Focusing on the point of departure for later Sartrean thought and political commitment, Sam Coombes highlights key areas of common ground between the ethical, aesthetic, and political content of works from Sartre’s early period and classic Marxist philosophy. Taking account of both the specificity of early Sartrean thought and the heterogeneity of Marxist theories, this book affirms their lasting importance to radical left critique. It offers in-depth analysis of areas of early Sartrean thought hitherto rarely discussed in the literature such as the conceptual parallels between the concepts of inauthenticity and ideology, the political implications of Sartre’s pre-war writings, and the first clear signs of Marxist tendencies in Sartre’s wartime writings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«No serious study of Sartre's philosophical, ethical, and political evolution in the future will be able to disregard Coombes's work.» (Ian Birchall, Modern Language Review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Ontological Bases – Conceptions of Concrete Reality: Sartre’s Refusal of Materialism – The Free Subject in Situation – From Ontology and Ethics to Politics and History – Inauthenticity and Ideology – Sartre’s Search for Authenticity – Commitment, Humanism and Left Political Thought – Towards a Dialectics of History – Authentic Ethics and Socialist Politics in Sartre’s \u003ci\u003eCahiers Pour une Morale\u003c\/i\u003e –\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWriting and Politics – \u003ci\u003eLes Petits Camarades\u003c\/i\u003e: Personal, Political and Literary Issues which Defined the Sartre-Nizan Relationship – Committed Writing.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043729899863,"sku":"9783039111152","price":61.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783039111152.jpg?v=1750959256","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-early-sartre-and-marxism-9783039111152","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}