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Title: Post-War Reflections
Author: SARTRE JEAN-PAUL
Illustrator: TURNER CHRIS (TRANSLATOR)
Format: PAPERBACK
Imprint: SEAGULL BOOKS
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
: A compact collection of eight wide-ranging essays by Sartre from the immediate postwar years.
Iconic French novelist, playwright and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the decades. The Seagull Sartre Library now presents some of his most incisive philosophical, cultural, and literary critical essays in newly designed and affordable editions.
Post-War Reflections collects eight of Sartre’s essays that were written in his most creative period, just after World War II. Sartre’s extraordinary range of engagement is manifest in this collection, which features writings on postwar America, the social impact of war in Europe, contemporary philosophy, race, and avant-garde art.
Contents: 1.The Republic of Silence
2.Paris under the Occupation
3.What is a Collaborator
4.The End of the War
5.Individualism and Conformism in the United States
6.Cities of America
7.New York, Colonial City
8.USA: Presentation
Author Biography: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a French novelist, playwright, and biographer who is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His work earned him the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. Chris Turner is a translator and writer living in Birmingham, UK. He has translated more than eighty books from French and German.
Series: The French List
ISBN: 9780857429049
Edition: 01