Reading Sartre: on Phenomenology and Existentialism
Edited collection of fourteen original essays on Sartre's philosophical writings up to 1950.
Each essay is both exegetical and critical. Together, they cover the full range of Sartre's early thought and present an assessment of its relevance to a variety of current debates.
ISBN: 978-0415287555 (pbk). Routledge, 2004. <preview in Google Book Search>
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The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre
Monograph arguing for an original interpretation of Sartrean existentialism as the elaboration of one basic idea, that a person's character consists in the projects they pursue. The book unpacks Sartre's notion of a project and details its role in his accounts of character, freedom, bad faith, and interpersonal relations. Sartrean existentialism is argued to be a form of virtue ethics with important contributions to make to current debates in metaethics and moral psychology.
"The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, which confronts an impressive number of the major interpreters of Sartre, is an extremely valuable scholarly contribution to that study ... Webber does a better job of clarifying Sartre's ambiguous statements about the many varieties of bad faith (and good faith and sincerity) than anyone I have read" – Thomas C. Anderson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews <read the full review>
ISBN: 9780415411189. Routledge, 2009. <preview in Google Book Search>
Currently only available in hardback or electronic copies. Perhaps your library needs one.
The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination
Arguably the finest treatment of the nature of imagination in Western philosophical literature, Sartre's early book The Imaginary is his most careful and detailed work of phenomenological psychology and an excellent introduction to his understanding of consciousness.
My translation is accompanied by my philosophical introduction and notes on the translation, along with an historical introduction by Sartre's adopted daughter and literary executor, Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre.
It is also the only English translation currently in print.
ISBN: 978-0415287555 (pbk). Routledge, 2004. <preview in Google Book Search>
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