Christina Howells, The Cambridge Companion To Sartre
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- Christina Howells, The Cambridge Companion To Sartre
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- 1910
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Christina Howells, The Cambridge Companion To Sartre
Author: Christina Howells (Editor, University of Oxford) – specialist in French philosophy and literature. Ronald Aronson – known for work on Sartre’s political thought and Marxism. Hazel Barnes – translator of Being and Nothingness and a key Sartre interpreter in the English-speaking world. Peter Caws – philosopher with expertise in phenomenology and existentialism. Robert Denoon Cumming – scholar of philosophy and literature. Thomas R. Flynn – major Sartre scholar, especially on freedom and responsibility. Leo Fretz – contributor on Sartre’s ethics. Rhiannon Goldthorpe – specialist in French literature and Sartre’s novels. David Jopling – philosopher focusing on Sartre’s moral psychology. Juliette Simont – Belgian philosopher, expert on Sartre’s ontology. Pierre Verstraeten – scholar of Sartre’s political and social philosophy.
Year: 1910
Christina Howells is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Sartre (1992), a comprehensive collection of essays that explore Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy, literature, and political thought from multiple perspectives. This volume is part of the Cambridge Companions to Philosophy series and remains one of the most widely used introductions to Sartre’s work in both academic and general contexts The book is structured around essays by leading scholars, each tackling a different aspect of Sartre’s thought: Ontology & Phenomenology: Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and his engagement with Husserl and Heidegger. Psychology & Human Freedom: His theories of consciousness, bad faith, and radical freedom. Ethics & Responsibility: Sartre’s evolving views on morality, authenticity, and the human condition. Aesthetics & Literature: His plays, novels, and literary criticism, including his ideas on the role of the writer. Politics & History: Sartre’s Marxist turn, his reflections on commitment, and his activism. Legacy & Influence: How Sartre’s ideas shaped existentialism, post-war philosophy, and debates on freedom and responsibility. Comprehensive introduction: It balances expository essays (ex