Sartre: The Necessity of Freedom

Christina Howells

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511753596

Sartre

The Necessity of Freedom

This book is a comprehensive study of the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre. As well as examining the drama and the fiction, the book analyses the evolution of his philosophy, explores his concern with ethics, psychoanalysis, literary theory, biography and autobiography and includes a lengthy section on the still much-neglected study of Flaubert, L'Idiot de la famille. One important aim of the book is to rebut the charges made by many theorists and philosophers by revealing that Sartre is in fact a major source for concepts such as the decentred subject and detotalised truth and for the revolt against individualistic humanism. Dr Howells also takes into account much posthumously published material, in particular the Chaiers pour une morale, but also the Lettres au Castor and the Cranets de la drole de guerre. The work is a substantial contribution to Sartre studies, but has been written with the non-specialist in mind; to that end all quotations are translated into English and gathered in an appendix.

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The Necessity of Freedom

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

General preface to the series
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-ix

List of abbreviations
pp x-x

Chronological biography
pp xi-xviii

1 - The early philosophy: the necessity of freedom
pp 1-26

2 - Notes for an ethics
pp 27-45

3 - The novels
pp 46-69

4 - Drama: theory and practice
pp 70-93

5 - The later philosophy: Marxism and the truth of history
pp 94-115

6 - Literary theory
pp 116-144

7 - Psychoanalysis: existential and Freudian
pp 145-165

8 - Biography and autobiography: the discontinuous self
pp 166-193

9 - A contemporary perspective: Qui perd gagne
pp 194-201

Notes
pp 202-213

Translations
pp 214-276

Bibliography
pp 277-282

Index
pp 283-286

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