What Is Literature? Contributor(s): Sartre, Jean-Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415255570 ISBN-13: 9780415255578 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2001 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
Dewey: 801 |
Series: Routledge Classics |
Physical Information: (0.86 lbs) 288 pages |
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Publisher Description: Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings had a potency that was irresistible to the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inheritance to contemporary thought. The central tenet of the Existentialist movement which he helped to found, whereby God is replaced by an ethical self, proved hugely attractive to a generation that had seen the horrors of Nazism, and provoked a revolution in post-war thought and literature. In What is Literature? Sartre the novelist and Sartre the philosopher combine to address the phenomenon of literature, exploring why we read, and why we write. |