Background Infomation
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Dates: 1905-1980
Nationality: French
Literary Periods:
Inter-War Period,1918-1939;
Modernist Period, 1899-1945;
Postwar Period, 1945-1999;
Twentieth Century, 1900-1999
Literary Movements:
- Existentialism
- Phenomenology
- Marxism
- Hermeneutics
RELATED AUTHORS
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Simone de Beauvoir
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Albert Camus
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Martin Heidegger
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Søren Kierkegaard
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Karl Marx
REFERENCE & BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Scrbner Writers Series[Database]
Essay and biography on the life and works of Jean-Paul Sartre, complete works and suggested reading bibliographies
Literature Resource Center [DATABASE]
Includes entries from Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Twayne's Authors Series, and Scribner Writers Series
Literature Online (LION)
Biographical overview, complete bibliography, journal articles, audio & video recordings, and recommended Web site
Literary Encyclopedia
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Philosopher's Index
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
PRIMARY SOURCES: TEXTS
Books, essays, and journal articles indexed in MLA International Bibliography 
[Database]
MLA International Bibliography is the definitive literary research database, indexing the most authoritative Sartre scholarship published in books and academic journals. MLA indexes and links to the entire JSTOR literary research collection as well as linking to many other full-text providers and the Colby College Libraries catalog. If you discover books or articles through MLA that are not available at Colby or through our lending partners, please request these items using your ILLiad Account.
Works by Sartre:
- Being and nothingness; an essay on phenomenological ontology. [BOOK] Translated and with an introd. by Hazel E. Barnes | Available at Bowdoin B819 .S273 2001
- The Age of Reason [BOOK] Translated. from the French by Eric Sutton | Colby Storage PQ2637.A82 A52
- Anti-Semite and Jew [BOOK] Translated by George J. Becker | Miller Library DS145 .S28
- Baudelaire [BOOK] Colby Storage PQ2191.Z5 S313 1967
BOOKS AT COLBY
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Sartre: a Guide for the Perplexed byCall Number: B2430.S34 C66 2006ISBN: 082648705XPublication Date: 2006-05-23Jean-Paul Sartre in one of the most widely read and important of twentieth-century philosophers, an iconic figure, whose ideas and writings continue to resonate. A confident understanding of Sartre is essential for students of Continental philosophy. Sartre: A Guide for the Perplexed is an illuminating and comprehensive introduction to the work of this major twentieth-century thinker.
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Sartre and Camus: a Historic Confrontation by Call Number: B2430.S34 S317 2004ISBN: 159102157XPublication Date: 2004-03-01In 1952, Jean-Paul Sartre engaged Albert Camus in a celebrated and bitter public confrontation that had wide-ranging cultural significance. The year before, Camus had challenged the prevailing political wisdom in his renowned work, The Rebel. In response he was attacked in print, first by Francis Jeanson writing in Les Temps Modernes, a journal edited by Sartre, and then by Sartre himself. In a series of highly publicized articles, these literary and cultural titans locked horns over human values, social and political policy, the nature of human freedom, the meaning of history, and the direction that Western civilization should take. This book contains the first English translation of the five texts constituting this famous philosophical quarrel. Personally animated, passionately argued, polemically focused, this confrontation was as much a personal encounter as it was a theoretical debate. Alternating between stylistic brilliance and stinging sarcasm, each draws upon their years of past involvement as former friends both to make their criticisms more pointed and their theoretical critique more challenging. At the same time, their views serve as lightning rods for the wider cultural forces of which they are partial expressions. -
