French existentialism : : consciousness, ethics, and relations with others / / edited by James Giles.

This book is a critical appraisal of the distinctive modern school of thought known as French existentialism. It philosophically engages the ideas of the major French existentialists, namely, Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Marcel, Camus, and, because of his central role in the movement, especially Sartre,...

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Superior document:Value inquiry book series ; Volume 87
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1999]
©1999
Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
Series:Value inquiry book series ; Volume 87.
Physical Description:1 online resource (233 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Editorial Foreword. Acknowledgements. James GILES: Introduction
  • ONE Elizabeth MURRAY MORELLI: The Duality in Sartre's Account of Reflective Consciousness
  • TWO Edmond WRIGHT: Merleau-Ponty and the Sensory
  • THREE Matthew KIERAN: French Existential Ethics and the Creation of Value
  • FOUR Terry KEEFE: The Ethical Concept of Assuming in the Existential Philosophy of Sartre and Beauvoir
  • FIVE Margaret A. SIMONS: The Origins of Beauvoir's Existential Philosophy
  • SIX Juliette SIMONT: Sartre's Critique of Humanism
  • SEVEN Philip STRATTON-LAKE: Marcel, Hope, and Virtue
  • EIGHT James GILES: Sartre, Sexual Desire, and Relations with Others
  • NINE Thomas JONES: Useless Passions?
  • TEN Christine MARGERRISON: Struggling with the Other: Gender and Race in the Youthful Writings of Camus
  • About the Contributors
  • Index.