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SARTRE: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED Guides for the Perplexed available from Continuum: Adorno: A Guide for the Perplexed, Alex Thomson Deleuze: A Guide for the Perplexed, Claire Colebrook Levinas: A Guide for the Perplexed, B. C. Hutchens Sartre: A Guide for the Perplexed, Gary Cox Wittgenstein: A Guide for the Perplexed, Mark Addis SARTRE: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED GARY COX continuum LONDON • NEW YORK CONTINUUM The Tower Building 15 East 26th Street 11 York Road New York London SE1 7NX NY 10010 First published 2006 www. continuumbooks. com © Gary Cox 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Gary Cox has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 0-8264-8705-X PB: 0-8264-8706-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Manchester Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Cornwall For Sharon This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS List of Abbreviations viii Preface xi Part 1 Consciousness 1 1 Being-for-Itself 3 2 Being-for-Others 42 3 The Body 49 Part 2 Freedom 59 4 Existential Freedom 61 Part 3 Bad Faith 89 5 The Phenomenon of Bad Faith 91 6 The Faith of Bad Faith - The Primitive Project 123 Part 4 Authenticity 131 7 Sartre on Authenticity 133 8 Sartre and Nietzsche 146 9 Sartre and Heidegger 151 Notes 157 References 169 Further Reading 173 Index 174 vii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Works by Sartre are cited using the following abbreviations. See References for full bibliographical information. AJ Anti-Semite and Jew AR The Age of Reason BN Being and Nothingness CL The Childhood of a Leader CP Crime Passionnel EAH Existentialism and Humanism LC Lettres au Castor N Nausea NE No Exit POM The Problem of Method SG Saint Genet TE The Transcendence of the Ego W Words WD War Diaries viii All things which exist, exist either in themselves or in something else. (Benedictus de Spinoza, Ethics, First Part, Axiom I) ix
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