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SARTRE: A PHILOSOPHICAL BIOGRAPHY Jean-PaulSartre(1905–1980)wasoneofthemostinfluentialthinkersofthe twentiethcentury.Regardedasthefatherofexistentialistphilosophy,hewas alsoapoliticalcritic,moralist,playwright,novelist,andauthorofbiograph- ies and short stories. Thomas R. Flynn provides the first book-length accountofSartreasaphilosopheroftheimaginary,mappingtheintellectual developmentofhisideasthroughouthislife,andbuildinganarrativethatis notonlyphilosophicalbutalsoattentivetothepoliticalandliterarydimen- sions of his work. Exploring Sartre’s existentialism, politics, ethics, and ontology, this book illuminates the defining ideas of Sartre’s oeuvre: the literary and the philosophical, the imaginary and the conceptual, his descriptivephenomenologyandhisphenomenologicalconceptofintention- ality,andhisconjunctionofethicsandpoliticswithan“egoless”conscious- ness. It will appeal to all who are interested in Sartre’s philosophy and its relation to his life. thomas r. flynn is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He is the author of many articles and books, including Sartre and Marxist Existentialism: The Test Case of Collective Responsibility (1984);Sartre,FoucaultandHistoricalReason,vol.i,TowardanExistentialist Theory of History (1997) and vol. ii, A Poststructuralist Mapping of History (2005); andExistentialism: A VeryShortIntroduction (2006). Sartre A Philosophical Biography Thomas R. Flynn UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521826402 ©ThomasR.Flynn2014 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2014 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabySheridanBooks,Inc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Flynn,ThomasR.,author. Sartre:aphilosophicalbiography/ThomasR.Flynn. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-521-82640-2(Hardback) 1. Sartre,Jean-Paul,1905–1980. 2. Existentialism. I. Title. B2430.S34F5782014 194–dc23 [B] 2014015829 ISBN978-0-521-82640-2Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. For my extended family Contents Preface page ix 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 necessityof contingency: Nausea 137 7 The war years, 1939–1944 162 8 Bad faith in human life: Beingand 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 theoryof 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 vii

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