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Description
Sartre: A Guide for the Perplexed is an illuminating and comprehensive introduction to the work of this major twentieth-century thinker. It identifies the four key themes that run through Sartre's writings - consciousness, freedom, bad faith and authenticity. It explores each theme in detail, building up a clear and thorough overview of Sartre's philosophy in its entirety. Anyone required to read Sartre will find this thematic account of his work an invaluable companion to study.
Table of Contents
Preface
PART ONE: CONSCIOUSNESS
1. Being-for-Itself
a. Being and Non-Being
b. Subjectivity and Objectivity
c. Consciousness and Temporality
d. Self-Consciousness
2. Being for Others
3. The Body
PART TWO: FREEDOM
4. Existential Freedom
a. The Necessity of Freedom
b. Action, Choice and the Indeterminacy of the Self
c. The Limits of Freedom: Criticisms of Sartre's Theory of Freedom
PART THREE: BAD FAITH
5. The Phenomenon of Bad Faith
a. Bad Faith and Self-deception
b. Relinquishing Responsibility: The Flirt
c. Automaton or Actor?: The Waiter
d. Objectifying Emotions: Sadness
e. Insincerity and Sincerity: The Homosexual and The Champion of Sincerity
f. Being and Not Being What We Are: The Coward
6. The Faith of Bad Faith: The Primitive Project
PART FOUR: AUTHENTICITY
7. Sartre on Authenticity
8. Sartre and Nietzsche
9. Sartre and Heidegger
Bibliography
Further Reading
Product details
Published | Mar 23 2006 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 194 |
ISBN | 9781441169884 |
Imprint | Continuum |
Series | Guides for the Perplexed |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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"Cox's book is much more than an introduction to Sartre ... Satre: A Guide for the Perplexed is well worth reading and thinking about. It would be useful in existentialism classes, history of philosophy classes, philosophy of mind, and in Great Books programs which focus on the chronological development of ideas in the Western world."
Bob Lane in Metapsychology
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'Exceptionally clear and incisive ... Cox gives a tightly integrated account that penetrates deep into Sartre's thinking and provides a very accessible and perspicuous assessment ... This book will be hugely helpful to readers of Sartre and will, I believe, prove to be of lasting value.' Nicholas Dent, Professor (Emeritus) of Philosophy, University of Birmingham
Blurb from reviewer
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"By discussing the limits of [Sartre's] arguments and assessing the criticisms levelled against him, the author maintains a balanced view and does not go along with the tendency of the 1980s and 1990s to dismiss his work as incoherent and insignificant. Equally helpful are the examples from everyday life illustrating particularly difficult ideas, like the use of the pixelated image of an actor on screen to explain intentionality (p.17)."
Rosalind Silvester, Journal of European Studies

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