What Is Subjectivity?

What Is Subjectivity? - Paperback

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What Is Subjectivity? - Paperback

What Is Subjectivity? - Paperback

by Jean-Paul Sartre
$22.95
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by Jean-Paul Sartre (Author), Fredric Jameson (Afterword by), Michel Kail (Introduction by)

Jean-Paul Sartre, at the height of his powers, debates with Italy's leading intellectuals

In 1961, the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. In attendance were some of Italy's leading Marxist thinkers, such as Enzo Paci, Cesare Luporini, and Galvano Della Volpe, whose contributions to the long and remarkable discussion that followed are collected in this volume, along with the lecture itself. Sartre posed the question "What is subjectivity?"--a question of renewed importance today to contemporary debates concerning "the subject" in critical theory. This work includes a preface by Michel Kail and Raoul Kirchmayr and an afterword by Fredric Jameson, who makes a rousing case for the continued importance of Sartre's philosophy.

Author Biography

Jean-Paul Sartre was a philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal Les Temps modernes. Born in Paris in 1905, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964--and turned it down. His books include Nausea, Intimacy, The Flies, No Exit, The Freud Scenario, War Diaries, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and the monumental treatise Being and Nothingness. He died in 1980.

Number of Pages: 160
Dimensions: 0.4 x 7.8 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: April 19, 2016
ISBN9781784781378
Author Jean-Paul Sartre
PublisherVerso
GenrePhilosophy
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2016
LanguageENG- English
Pages160
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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