French Existentialism

Offers a critical appraisal of the school of thought known as French existentialism. Examines the ideas of the major French existentialists, including Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Marcel, Camus, and especially Sartre, in a fresh attempt to elucidate their contributions to contemporary philosophy. Discussion encompasses Merleau-Ponty and the sensory, Fr

ISBN	9042004886	DEWEY edition	DC21
ISBN13	9789042004887 (What's this?)	Pages	225
Publisher	Editions Rodopi B.V.	Published in	Amsterdam
Imprint	Editions Rodopi B.V.	Series ISSN	0929-843
Format	Paperback	Series title	Value Inquiry Book S.
Publication date	30 Oct 1999	Height (mm)	220
Library of Congress	B2424.E95	Academic level	Postgraduate
DEWEY	142.780944

	Editorial Foreword	1
	Acknowledgements	5
	Introduction by James Giles	7
1	The Duality in Sartre's Account of Reflective Consciousness by Elizabeth Murray Morelli	19
2	Merleau-Ponty and the Sensory by Edmond Wright	33
3	French Existential Ethics and the Creation of Value by Matthew Kieran	59
4	The Ethical Concept of "Assuming" in the Existential Philosophy of Sartre and Beauvoir by Terry Keefe	87
5	The Origins of Beauvoir's Existential Philosophy by Margaret A. Simons	107
6	Sartre's Critique of Humanism by Juliette Simont	125
7	Marcel, Hope, and Virtue by Philip Stratton-Lake	139
8	Sartre, Sexual Desire, and Relations with Others by James Giles	155
9	Useless Passions? by Thomas Jones	175
10	Struggling with the Other: Gender and Race in the Youthful Writings of Camus by Christine Margerrison	191
	About the Contributors	213
	Index	215

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