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Title: Sartre - Still existentialising after all these years
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 21, 2016, 06:52:27 PM

Review of three new books on Sartre, or rather 2 and one that is a bit wider. I really enjoyed Bakewell's book and am unlikely to seek out the other two, in part because it was Camus I turned to as a shiny newbie


http://tinyurl.com/hvebhc5

Title: Re: Sartre - Still existentialising after all these years
Post by: wigginhall on September 21, 2016, 07:09:39 PM

I'd better read that, as I was well into 'Being and Nothingness' at a certain age.   I don't think I would get beyond page 1 now.   

Title: Re: Sartre - Still existentialising after all these years
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 21, 2016, 07:14:02 PM

Quote from: wigginhall on September 21, 2016, 07:09:39 PM

I'd better read that, as I was well into 'Being and Nothingness' at a certain age.   I don't think I would get beyond page 1 now.

I found it, the Bakewell book, very engaging. It's part history, part philosophy but very clear. As the review says it is a bit light on Husserl but to be honest I could never understand him anyway. For a philosopher as dense as Heidegger it does really well.

Title: Re: Sartre - Still existentialising after all these years
Post by: Brownie on September 22, 2016, 10:48:37 AM

Quote from: wigginhall on September 21, 2016, 07:09:39 PM

I'd better read that, as I was well into 'Being and Nothingness' at a certain age.   I don't think I would get beyond page 1 now.

I only read his novels, one in particular I read aged 15 and several times afterwards (The Age of Reason);  might dip my toe into the water.