Conversations with Jean-Paul Sartre (Conversations With)

By Sartre, Jean-Paul & Beauvoir, Simone de & Anderson, Perry & Hoare, Quintin & Fraser, Ronald

Publishers Summary:
In these three interviews, the Marxist historian and scholar Perry Anderson takes Sartre on a wide-ranging tour of his philosophy and politics. The wide range of topics discussed includes freedom of choice, his uneasy relationship with Freudian concepts, his debates with Marx, and his acute observations on drama, the Cultural Revolution, Stalinism, the May Events and of course, the U.S. war on Vietnam. Their breadth remains a testimony to one mans attempt to make philosophical sense of the tumultuous world around him.

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ISBN
978-1-90542-201-2
Publisher
Seagull Books


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Reviewed on November 1, 2006

This brief collection of interviews presents Sartre's philosophical and political views on such topics as individual freedom, Marxism, and women's rights. The three interviews-which appeared in the journalsNew Left Review andL'Arc in 1965, 1967, and 1975-give the reader a glimpse into Sartre's philosophy as developed in hisCritique of Dialectical Reason . In the first interview, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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