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The Words
Sartre
When time and perspective allow the intellectual history of
the postwar world to be written, Jean-Paul Sartre's name will be at the
center. Philosopher, playwright, novelist, political theoretician and
AGENT PROVOCATEUR, Sartre has done more than most other men to shape
contemporary thinking....The question he now raises in THE WORDS is of
such centrality, so crucial to our understanding of the nature of art
and thought, that the book (translated from the French by Bernard
Frechtman) is likely to become a la ndmark of our age's
self-inquiry.... the origins of the self, a dream of the past, and an
unsparing personal memoir which is at another pole from formal
philosophy....
At 59, Sartre has undertaken his autobiography, bringing to his own
childhood the same rigor of honesty and insight which he applied so
brilliantly in earlier books to Baudelaire and Jean Genet.
Directed to the heart as well as to the intellect, the result is like
nothing else in the Sartre canon, and in France, where The Words has
headed the best seller list since its publication
Appears to be the first printing of the American Edition of this book
CONDITION:Hard Cover with Dust Jacket, light wear to dj, book in vg+ condition
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