The Aftermath of War, Situations III
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Turner, Chris
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
The Aftermath of War brings together essays written in Sartres most creative period, just after World War II. Sartres extraordinary range of engagement is manifest, with writings on post-war America, the social impact of war in Europe, contemporary philosophy, race, and avant garde art. Carefully structured into sections, the essays range across Sartres reflections on collaboration, resistance and liberation in post-war Europe, his thoughts and observations after his extended trip to the USA in 1945, an examination of the failings of philosophical materialism, his analysis of the new revolutionary poetry of negritude, and his meditations on the visual arts, with essays on the work of Giacometti and Calder, both of whom Sartre knew well.
AUTHOR BIO
Jean-Paul Sartre was a novelist, playwright, biographer and undoubtedly one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th Century. The emblematic French thinker of his generation, his hugely influential writings range across philosophy, novels, stories, plays and political pamphlets and include Being and Nothingness, Critique of Dialectical Reason, Nausea, The Words, The Flies and No Exit.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part One The Republic of Silence Paris under the Occupation What is a Collaborator? The End of the War Part Two Individualism and Conformism in the United States Cities of America New York, Colonial City USA: Presentation Part Three Materialism and Revolution I. The Revolutionary Myth II. The Philosophy of Revolution Part Four Black Orpheus Part Five The Quest for the Absolute Calder's Mobiles
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ISBN: 1905422881
ISBN(13-digit): 9781905422883
Dewey Decimal: 844.914
Library of Congress: 2009275437
Book Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 360
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