Jean-Paul Sartre

First published in France in 1949, The Thief's Journal is Jean Genet's iconic work of autobiographical fiction. This new edition brings his legendary genius to future generations of readers, with an introduction by Genet's great admirer, Patti Smith. From a prison cell, the journal's narrator recounts his travels across Europe in the 1930s--as a vagabond, pickpocket, and occasional prostitute--in pursuit of spiritual fulfilment through erotic trysts and evil deeds. Worshipping his own holy trinity of homosexuality, theft, and betrayal, he conducts every burglary, and each sexual encounter, with the elaborate, reverent ritual of a religious ceremony. Dressed in rags and stealing for his survival, he must evade the authorities for as long as possible. A sensuous and philosophical reverie on freedom within confinement, the heroism of the outlaw, and deception as the ultimate act of devotion, The Thief's Journal exemplifies the exquisitely lyrical combination of fact and fiction that made Genet a major figure in world literature.

First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre’s L’Être et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend of "the excitement – I remember nothing like it since the days of discovering Keats and Shelley and Coleridge". This new translation, the first for over sixty years, makes this classic work of philosophy available to a new generation of readers. What gives our lives significance, Sartre argues in Being and Nothingness, is not pre-established for us by God or nature but is something for which we ourselves are responsible. At the heart of this view are Sartre’s radical conceptions of consciousness and freedom. Far from being an internal, passive container for our thoughts and experiences, human consciousness is constantly projecting itself into the outside world and imbuing it with meaning. Combining this with the unsettling view that human existence is characterized by radical freedom and the inescapability of choice, Sartre introduces us to a cast of ideas and characters that are part of philosophical legend: anguish; the "bad faith" of the memorable waiter in the café; sexual desire; and the "look" of the Other, brought to life by Sartre’s famous description of someone looking through a keyhole. Above all, by arguing that we alone create our values and that human relationships are characterized by hopeless conflict, Sartre paints a stark and controversial picture of our moral universe and one that resonates strongly today. This new translation includes a helpful Translator’s Introduction, a comprehensive Index and a Foreword by Richard Moran, Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University, USA. Translated by Sarah Richmond, University College London, UK.

"Otsrochka" (1945) - vtoroj roman posle "Vozrasta zrelosti" v trilogii Sartra "Dorogi svobody". Evropa zamerla pered litsom neminuemoj vojny. S uzhasom osoznaet Mate, universitetskij prepodavatel filosofii, chto ego lichnye problemy, radosti i goresti uzhe rovno nichego ne znachat - kak peschinki v vikhre gigantskoj buri, kotoraja vot-vot smetet s litsa zemli ves privychnyj emu mir. Vse stalo ne vazhnym - ljubov, druzhba, razmyshlenija. I postepenno Mate, ranee ne prinimavshij samu ideju konechnosti chelovecheskoj zhizni, nachal nenavidet samu zhizn - muchitelnuju "otsrochku" smertnogo prigovora.

The early 1970s were a crucial period in the political and intellectual climate of France. The newspaper Libération was founded in the wake of the protest movements of 1968, and the country was gripped by industrial, political and civil unrest on a huge scale. Behind all this were deep debates about the nature and justification of revolt, class conflict and consciousness, and the nature of what it meant to be free. It is Right to Rebel, available in English for the first time with a new Preface by Philippe Gavi, is a fascinating discussion between three thinkers about this extraordinary period. The book comprises extensive conversations between the philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre, journalist and co-founder of Libération Philippe Gavi, and political radical and Maoist Pierre Victor, all conducted between 1972 and 1974. In these conversations Sartre works out his relation between socialism and freedom, providing fascinating background to his tortured relationship with the French Communist Party. Together with his interlocutors they explore and debate what should be the basis of ethics, the nature of oppression and racism, including immigration, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Chilean military coup in 1973 and more. A recurring theme is their exploration of two major questions: what should ethics be based on, and what makes for a revolutionary? It is Right to Rebel is a fascinating insight into the philosophical and political background to Sartre's thought as well as the two lesser-known figures of Gavi and Victor, who play political foil to Sartre's measured philosophical stance. It is a fascinating, rich new resource for anyone studying Sartre, political theory, and French politics and political history.

Critical Essays (Situations I) contains essays on literature and philosophy from a highly formative period of French philosopher and leading existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's life, the years between 1938 and 1946. This period is particularly interesting because it is before Sartre published the magnum opus that would solidify his name as a philosopher, Being and Nothingness. Instead, during this time Sartre was emerging as one of France's most promising young novelists and playwrights he had already published Nausea, The Age of Reason, The Flies, and No Exit. Not content, however, he was meanwhile consciously attempting to revive the form of the essay via detailed examinations of writers who were to become central to European cultural life in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Collected here are Sartre's experiments in reimagining the idea and structure of the essay. Among the distinguished writers he analyzes are Francis Ponge, Georges Bataille, Vladimir Nabokov, Maurice Blanchot, and, of course, Albert Camus, whose novel The Stranger Sartre endeavours to explain in these pages. Critical Essays (Situations I) also contains a famous attack on the Catholic novelist Francois Mauriac, studies of the great American literary iconoclasts Faulkner and Dos Passos, and brief but insightful essays on aspects of the philosophical writings of Husserl and Descartes. This new translation by Chris Turner reinvigorates the original skill and voice of Sartre's work and will be essential reading for fans of Sartre and the many writers and works he explores. For my generation he has always been one of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, a man whose insight and intellectual gifts were at the service of nearly every progressive cause of our time. Edward Said

The Aftermath of War brings together essays written in Sartre's most creative period, just after World War II. Sartre's 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 Sartre's 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.

"Slova" (1964) - avtobiografichnaja povest Zhana Polja Sartra. Avtor otkrovenno rasskazyvaet o svoem detstve, rodnykh i druzjakh, o pervom znakomstve s knigami i postepennom ponimanii svoego prizvanija stat pisatelem: "Ja obrel svoju religiju: kniga stala kazatsja mne vazhnee vsego na svete". Frantsija vtoroj chetverti XX veka, modnye togda pisateli i knigi - obo vsem etom Sartr pishet ostroumno i jazvitelno, no i k sebe on otnositsja ne menee kritichno: raskryvaet chitatelju sobstvennye detskie fantazii i zabluzhdenija, otrazivshiesja uzhe na ego vzrosloj zhizni.

The Psychology of the Imagination was originally published in France in 1940 under the title of L'Imaginaire. It was specifically designed as an essay in phenomenology and it constitutes the first attempts to introduce Husserl's work into French culture,and from there to the English speaking world. Published three years before Being and Nothingness , it reveals Sartre's first extended examination of such concepts as nothingness and freedom, both here derived from the consciousness's ability to imagine objects not only as they are but as they are not, and to imagine objects not in existence. According to Sartre, an object can be given to us in three ways: by perceiving it, by having an idea of it, and by imagining it (having an image of it). Although we may try to respond to the image in the same way as we would to the object itself, the fact remains that an image, however vivid, presents its object as not being. It was in The Psychology of Imagination that Sartre first brought together his new enthusiasm for phenomenology with the analysis of the preconditions for human freedom which was to figure so prominently in his later philosophical works.

In 1961, the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. In attendance were some of Italy's leading Marxist thinkers, such as Enzo Paci, Cesare Luporini, and Galvano Della Volpe, whose contributions to the long and remarkable discussion that followed are collected in this volume, along with the lecture itself. Sartre posed the question "What is subjectivity?" - a question of renewed importance today to contemporary debates concerning "the subject" in critical theory. This work includes a preface by Michel Kail and Raoul Kirchmayr and an afterword by Fredric Jameson, who makes a rousing case for the continued importance of Sartre's philosophy.

El protagonista es Antoine Roquentin, hombre soltero de alrededor de treinta a os. Vive solo en Bouville. Trabaja meticulosamente en una obra sobre la vida del Marqu s de Rollebon, un arist crata de fines del siglo XVIII. No tiene profesi n y vive de sus rentas, luego de haber abandonado un empleo en Indochina, por haberse cansado de viajar y por haber dejado de sentir tal empe o como aventura deseable.

La obra se inicia con el Mayordomo conduciendo a un hombre llamado Garc n hacia un cuarto, que la audiencia pronto identifica como el infierno (el infierno puede ser un hotel gigantesco, debido a los "cuartos y pasillos" mencionados en la obra). El cuarto no tiene espejos ni ventanas y s lo cuenta con una puerta, tres sillones, una estatua de bronce y un abrecartas. Finalmente, una mujer, In s, entra a la habitaci n de Garc n, y posteriormente otra, Estelle. Despu s de que ambas ingresen, el Mayordomo sale y la puerta es cerrada con llave. Todos esperan ser torturados, pero no aparece torturador alguno. En lugar de ello, ellos descubren que est n ah para torturarse entre ellos, lo cual parecen estar logrando. Al principio, los tres observan eventos que les conciernen, sucediendo en Tierra, pero finalmente (conforme su conexi n con Tierra se desvanece y los vivos prosiguen) son abandonados con sus propios pensamientos y la compa a de los otros dos. Al final de la obra, Garc n exige salir; tras decirlo, la puerta se abre, pero ninguno decide salir, ya que se dan cuenta de que no pueden vivir los unos sin los otros.

El muro es una colecci n de novelas cortas publicada en 1939 por el escritor franc s Jean-Paul Sartre. Es considerada como una de las mejores obras existencialistas del autor y fue dedicada a su amante de toda la vida Olga Kosakiewicz, antigua estudiante de Simone de Beauvoir.

The full French text of Sartre's novel is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

The full French text of Sartre's first full-length play is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

Ett möte mellan de båda vännerna Raymond Aron och Jean-Paul Sartre på ett kafé i Paris vintern 1932 kom att få avgörande betydelse för den senares filosofiska utveckling. Aron vistades under denna tid i Berlin där han studerade Husserl och den tyska fenomenologin. I den fenomenologiska filosofin undersöker man vanliga och påtagliga saker så som de visar sig för oss, klargjorde Aron. För fenomenologen är inte världen i sig, utan världen som fenomen, studie­objekt. Sartre blev fullständigt tagen av vännens beskrivning och beslöt att själv resa till Berlin. Där tillbringade han läsåret 1933/34, intensivt sysselsatt med den tyska fenomenologin. Han fördjupade sig i skrifter av Husserl, Heidegger och Jaspers och arbetade på essän "Egots transcendens", som kom att bli den kanske viktigaste av hans tidiga filosofiska studier. I dessa första arbeten sökte Sartre utveckla en egen och originell medvetandeteori. I "Egots transcendens" radikali­serar han Husserls fenomenologi genom att ta bort jaget som otvivelaktig utgångspunkt. Medvetandet är för Sartre ren, fri spontanitet, ett intet, ett medvetande om något utan­för sig själv; det är ett jaglöst, opersonligt medvetande som är individuellt till sin natur. Jaget är inte något som finns i eller bakom medvetandet, utan det framträder i stället som resul­tat av en reflexionsakt. Med denna syn på jaget och medvetandet menade sig Sartre undvika idealism och kunna filosofiskt grunda en moral och en politik. Detta är en nyutgåva av 1991 års utgåva.

A cornerstone of Sartre’s philosophy, The Imaginary was first published in 1940. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of the 'intentionality of consciousness' as a key to the puzzle of existence. Against this background, The Imaginary crystallized Sartre's worldview and artistic vision. The book is an extended examination of the concepts of nothingness and freedom, both of which are derived from the ability of consciousness to imagine objects both as they are and as they are not – ideas that would drive Sartre's existentialism and entire theory of human freedom.

‘I should like to show here that the Ego is neither formally or materially in consciousness: it is outside, in the world.’ Jean-Paul Sartre The Transcendence of the Ego is one of Jean-Paul Sartre's earliest philosophical publications and essential for understanding the trajectory of his work as a whole. When it first appeared in France in 1937 Sartre was still largely unknown, working as a school teacher in a provincial French town. Attacking prevailing philosophical theories head on, Sartre offers a brilliant and radical account of the self as a product of consciousness, situated in the world. He introduces many of the themes central to his major work, Being and Nothingness: the nature of consciousness, the problem of self-knowledge, other minds, and anguish. This translation includes a thorough and illuminating introduction by Sarah Richmond, placing Sartre's essay in its philosophical and historical context. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980). The foremost French thinker and writer of the early post-war years. His books, which include Being and Nothingness, Nausea, The Age of Reason and No Exit have exerted enormous influence in philosophy, literature, politics and drama.

Zhan-Pol Sartr - unikalnoe imja v literaturno-filosofskoj plejade serediny XX stoletija. Imja cheloveka, vpervye v ekzistentsialnoj proze sformulirovavshego dva "ultraradikalnykh" ee printsipa - "svoboda lezhit po druguju storonu otchajanija" i "ja prinimaju vinu na sebja". Proizvedenija Sartra, pri vsej ikh metaforichnosti, - ne proizvedenija "postoronnego", no iskrennie i boleznenno-jarostnye tvorenija "chuzhogo v chuzhoj strane". Toshnota - eto sut bytija ljudej, zastrjavshikh "v sutoloke dnja". Ljudej - broshennykh na milost chuzhdoj, bezzhalostnoj, bezotradnoj realnosti. Toshnota - eto nevozmozhnost ljubvi i doverija, eto - poprostu - neumenie muzhchiny i zhenschiny ponjat drug druga. Toshnota - eto ta samaja "drugaja storona otchajanija", po kotoruju lezhit Svoboda. No - chto delat s etoj prokljatoj svobodoj cheloveku, osatanevshemu ot odinochestva?..