Modern times : selected non-fiction / Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated by Robin Buss ; edited by Geoffrey Wall.
By: Sartre, Jean Paul.
Contributor(s): Buss, Robin
| Wall, Geoffrey.
Material type: 
BookSeries: Penguin classics.Publisher: London : Penguin, 2000Description: xlix, 364 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0140189211.Subject(s): Sartre, Jean Paul, 1905-1980 | Philosophy, French -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 848.91 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 848.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00086495 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
MODERN TIMES brings together an extraordinary collection of Sartrean gems, many of which have never been translated into English before. From writings on food and sex to a mini portrait of his great friend and rival, Albert Camus, the volume contains an amazing sweep of thematically organised writing. Amidst the grander set pieces on communism and the art of biography, are shorter and more revealing pieces on maternal love and masturbation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xlii - xliii).
Cities -- Sexualities -- Revolutions -- Modern Times -- Portraits.
Translated from the French
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Sartre is the dominant figure in post-war French intellectual life. A graduate of the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure with an agregation in philosophy, Sartre has been a major figure on the literary and philosophical scenes since the late 1930s. Widely known as an atheistic proponent of existentialism, he emphasized the priority of existence over preconceived essences and the importance of human freedom. In his first and best novel, Nausea (1938), Sartre contrasted the fluidity of human consciousness with the apparent solidity of external reality and satirized the hypocrisies and pretensions of bourgeois idealism. Sartre's theater is also highly ideological, emphasizing the importance of personal freedom and the commitment of the individual to social and political goals. His first play, The Flies (1943), was produced during the German occupation, despite its underlying message of defiance. One of his most popular plays is the one-act No Exit (1944), in which the traditional theological concept of hell is redefined in existentialist terms. In Red Gloves (Les Mains Sales) (1948), Sartre examines the pragmatic implications of the individual involved in political action through the mechanism of the Communist party and a changing historical situation. His highly readable autobiography, The Words (1964), tells of his childhood in an idealistic bourgeois Protestant family and of his subsequent rejection of his upbringing. Sartre has also made significant contributions to literary criticism in his 10-volume Situations (1947--72) and in works on Baudelaire, Genet, and Flaubert.In 1964 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and refused it, saying that he always declined official honors. (Bowker Author Biography)