Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century

by Bernard-Henri Lévy

Book Overview

"A whole man, made of all men, worth all of them, and any one of them worth him." This was how Jean-Paul Sartre characterized himself at the end of his autobiographical study, Words. And Bernard-Henri Levy shows how Sartre cannot be understood without taking into account his relations with the intellectual forebears and contemporaries, the lovers and friends, with whom he conducted a lifelong debate. His thinking was essentially a tumultuous dialogue...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074563009X
• ISBN13: 9780745630090
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"