The work of Sartre : search for freedom and the challenge of history / by István Mészáros.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Unity of Life and Work: Outline of Sartre's Development -- 1. Writer and His Situation -- 2. Philosophy, Literature, and Myth -- 3. From "The Legend of Truth" to a "True Legend": Phases of Sartre's Development -- pt. TWO Search for Freedom -- 4. Search for the Individual: The Early Works -- 5. Freedom and Passion: The World of Being and Nothingness -- Note on Being and Nothingness -- pt. THREE Challenge of History -- Introduction -- 6. Material and Formal Structures of History: Critique of Sartre's Conception of Dialectical Reason and Historical Totalization -- 7. Levi-Strauss Against Sartre -- 8. Role of Scarcity in Historical Conceptions -- 9. Missing Dimension.

This landmark book, first published in 1979, met acclaim as a doubly important work of radical philosophy. Its subject, Jean-Paul Sartre, was among the twentieth century's most controversial and influential philosophers; its author, István Mészáros, was himself establishing a reputation for profound contributions to the Marxian tradition, which would continue into the next century. The Work of Sartre was thus considered essential for its insights on Sartre and as a piece of Mészáros's developing politico-philosophical project. In this completely updated and expanded volume, Mészáros examines the manifold aspects of Sartre's legacy - as novelist, playwright, philosopher, and political actor- and in so doing casts light upon the enture oeuvre, situating it within the historical and social context of Sartre's time. Although critical of aspects of Sartre's philosophy, Mészáros celebrates his unyielding commitment to the struggle against the power of capital, and elucidates what this means for the individual in their search for freedom.

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