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Sartre

By: Katherine Morris (University of Oxford)

Series: Blackwell Great Minds

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A novel introduction to Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist phenomenology.

• Draws parallels between Sartre's work and the work of Wittgenstein
• Stresses continuities rather than conflict between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, and between Sartre and post-structuralist/post-modernist thinkers, thus corroborating 'new Sartre' readings
• Exhibits the influence of Gestalt psychology in Sartre's descriptions of the life-world
• Forms part of the Blackwell Great Minds series, which outlines the views of the great western thinkers and captures the relevance of these figures to the way we think and live today

TopTable of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sartre's Life
Part I:
1. Phenomenology
2. Intellectual Prejudices and Sartrean Therapy
3. Consciousness
4. Bad Faith
Part II:
5. The Body
6. Life-space
7. Others
8. Freedom
Postscript: Ethics and Beyond
Bibliography
Index

TopAbout the Author

Katherine Morris has been a Lecturer in philosophy at Mansfield College, Oxford University since 1986 and a fellow since 1998; she holds an MPhil in medical anthropology as well as a DPhil in philosophy. The author of numerous articles on Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Descartes and Wittgenstein, she is also the co-author of Descartes' Dualism (1996) with G.P. Baker.