Book Series in Literature

Sartre and Existentialism: Philosophy, Politics, Ethics, the Psyche, Literature, and Aesthetics

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Existentialist Literature and Aesthetics

Edited by William L. McBride

Existentialist Literature and Aesthetics
Most of Sartre's extensive works of and about literature-his fiction, his drama, his never-produced film script on Freud, and his extensive…

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1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2497-3 (Routledge)

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Sartre's French Contemporaries and Enduring Influences

Camus, Merleau-Ponty, Debeauvoir & Enduring Influences

Edited by William L. McBride

Sartre's French Contemporaries and Enduring Influences
This final volume examines Sartre's best-known philosophical contemporaries in France-Albert Camus, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir-in terms of…

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1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2498-0 (Routledge)

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The Development and Meaning of Twentieth-Century Existentialism

Edited by William L. McBride

The Development and Meaning of Twentieth-Century Existentialism
This volume recaptures, through the writings of figures already well-known in the mid-1940s, the coming-to-consciousness of the existentialist…

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1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2491-1 (Routledge)

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Existentialist Background: Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger

Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger

Edited by William L. McBride

Existentialist Background: Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Jaspers, HeideggerThese essays explore the relationship to existentialism of some of Sartre's 19th-century predecessors and near-contemporaries. For example, Kierkegaard was…

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1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2492-8 (Routledge)

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Sartre's Life, Times and Vision du Monde

Edited by William L. McBride

William L. McBride Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, is co-founder of the North American Sartre Society, and the first chairperson of its executive board.…

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1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2493-5 (Routledge)

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Existentialist Ontology and Human Consciousness

Edited by William L. McBride

Existentialist Ontology and Human Consciousness
The majority of the distinguished scholarly articles in this volume focus on Sartre's early philosophical work, which dealt first with…

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1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2494-2 (Routledge)

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Existentialist Ethics

Issues in Existentialist Ethics

Edited by William L. McBride

Existentialist Ethics
Ethics was Sartre's principal concern, beginning with his famous and complex treatment of "bad faith" in Being and Nothingness, and continuing through his…

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1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2495-9 (Routledge)

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Existentialist Politics and Political Theory

Edited by William L. McBride

Existentialist Politics and Political Theory
The publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960 marked the culmination of Sartre's efforts, begun in his more…

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1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2496-6 (Routledge)

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