Sartre

Contents

Preface pageix

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xiii

1 The childhood of a genius 1
2 An elite education: student, author, soldier,
teacher 20
3 Teaching in the lyce ́e, 1931 – 1939 47
4 First triumph:The Imagination 76
5 Consciousness as imagination 104
6 The necessity of contingency:Nausea 137
7 The war years, 1939 – 1944 162
8 Bad faith in human life:Being and Nothingness 196
9 Existentialism: the fruit of liberation 230
10 Ends and means: existential ethics 262
11 Means and ends: political existentialism 283
12 A theory of history:Search for a Method 314
13 Individuals and groups:Critique of
Dialectical Reason 334
14 A second ethics? 355
15 Existential biography: Flaubert and others 382
Conclusion: the Sartrean imaginary, chastened
but indomitable 409

Select bibliography 413

Index 424

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