Sartre and Marxist Existentialism

Name: Sartre and Marxist Existentialism
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ISBN: 9780226254661

ISBN-10: 0226254666

ISBN-13: 9780226254661

Edition: 1986 (Reprint)

Authors: Thomas R. Flynn

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In this important book, Thomas R. Flynn reinterprets and evaluates Sartre's social and political philosophy, arguing that the existential ethics of Sartre's early phase is consistent with the Marxist-inspired views of his later writings. Displaying his mastery of Sartre's entire corpus, Flynn reconstructs Sartre's social ontology with its sensitive balance of the existentialist's respect for moral responsibility and the Marxist's sense of social causation. Flynn focuses on the issue of collective responsibility as a particularly apt test-case for assessing any proposed union of existentialist and Marxist perspectives. The study begins with an examination of the uses of "responsibility" in…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Abbreviations


Introduction



Freedom and Responsibility in Sartrean Existentialism



The Existentialist Anthropology of Being and Nothingness Freedoms and Responsibilities



The Existentialist Anthropology of Being and Nothingness: The Social Dimension



Beyond Authenticity: Social Responsibility and the Committed Agent



Collective Responsibility: The Emergence of a Theory4. Three Portraits of Social Responsibility



Freedom and Necessity: The Existentialist in the Court of History



Sartre's Social Ontology: The Problem of Mediations



The Conditions and Range of Collective Responsibility: The Theory Reconstructed



Responsibility and the Industrial Capitalist



Existential Marxism or Marxist Existentialism?



The Sartrean Dilemma: Collective Responsibility without a Collective Subject



Collective Responsibility and the Ethical Imagination Jean-Paul Sartre Vivant: The Existentialist as Social Theorist


Notes


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