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Nausea (French: La Nausée) is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938.It is Sartre's first novel. [1] [2]The novel takes place in 'Bouville' (homophone of Boue-ville, literally, 'Mud town') a town similar to Le Havre. [3]
The Autodidact is a fictional character from Jean-Paul Sartre's 1938 novel Nausea. [1] The Autodidact, who lives in Bouville near the protagonist Antoine Roquentin, passes his time by reading every book in the local library in alphabetical order. [1]
Phenomenological description is a method of phenomenology that attempts to depict the structure of first person lived experience, rather than theoretically explain it. [1] This method was first conceived of by Edmund Husserl .
No Exit (French: Huis clos, pronounced [ɥi klo]) is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The play was first performed at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in May 1944. [ 1 ] The play centers around a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for eternity.
The Roads to Freedom (French: Les chemins de la liberté) is a series of novels by French author Jean-Paul Sartre.Intended as a tetralogy, it was left incomplete, with only three complete volumes and part one of the fourth volume of the planned four volumes published in his lifetime and the unfinished second part of the fourth volume was edited and published a year after his death.
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre; Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller; Pamela by Samuel Richardson; Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler; Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler; The Pendragon Adventure by D. J. MacHale (a series of ten novels) Penny Pollard's Diary by Robin Klein; The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot; The Secret Diary of Laura ...
In the wake of Being and Nothingness, Sartre became concerned with reconciling his concept of freedom with concrete social subjects and was strongly influenced in this regard by his friend and associate Maurice Merleau-Ponty, whose writings in the late 1940s and early 1950s, including Sense and Non-Sense, were pioneering a path towards a synthesis of existentialism and Marxism. [9]
For Jean-Paul Sartre, to claim that one amongst many conscious possibilities takes undeniable precedence (for instance, "I cannot risk my life, because I must support my family") is to assume the role of an object in the world, not a free agent, but merely at the mercy of circumstance (a being-in-itself that is only its own facticity, i.e., it ...