Tystnadens republik
Tystnadens republik by Sartre Jean-Paul and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre published several compilation of essays entitled "Situations" The situation has special meaning for the modern philosophical person. Freedom and situations relate to each other. Genres Philosophy Literature Nonfiction Essays.
Loading interface About the author. Jean-Paul Sartre books Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution. Together, Sartre and de Beauvoir challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations of their upbringings, which they considered bourgeois, in both lifestyles and thought. The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity mauvaise foi, literally, 'bad faith' and an "authentic" way of "being" became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work Being and Nothingness L'Être et le Néant, Sartre's introduction to his philosophy is his work Existentialism Is a Humanism L'existentialisme est un humanisme, , originally presented as a lecture.
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Write a Review. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! Community Reviews. Search review text. Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews. Author 6 books followers. One of the main problems is that it is so hard to care about some of the people in this book today, for example, Merleau-Ponty, Nathalie Sarraute, and Paul Nizan. And Sartre is just not a likable person. His griping really can be a bit much, I said, griping.
His complaints about Albert Camus also ring false. Of the two men, I leave no doubt who I would support: Camus, no problem.
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Sartre made excuses for Stalinist Russia for way too long. Ideologies can be dangerous, as we are witnessing today with the so-called "conservative" or "libertarian" movement. There were a few essays on famous artists. I especially liked the one about Giacometti. Here is a quote: "Some have painted the chestnut tree beneath my window as a round quivering unity, while others have painted the leaves one by one, with every vein.
Do I see a leafy mass or a multiplicity? Leaves or foliage? In reality, I see both, but not quite either one, with the result that I am tossed from one point of view to the other. I certainly do not see leaves, since I am incapable of seeing each one of them in its entirety. Just as I am about to apprehend them, they escape, and when I am about to apprehend the foliage, it decomposes. In short, what I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal.
Now try and paint that! Karlo Mikhail. Excellent essays on Sartre's personal and political engagements with French thinkers who were his contemporaries Camus, Nizan, Merleau Ponty, etc. Sharp, articulate, and always critical even of his own positions.