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What is Literature?

Bernard Frechtman

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings had a potency that was irresistible to the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inheritance to contemporary thought. The central tenet of the Existentialist movement which he helped to found, whereby God is replaced by an ethical self, proved hugely attractive to a generation that had seen the horrors of Nazism, and provoked a revolution in post-war thought and literature. In What is Literature? Sartre the novelist and Sartre the philosopher combine to address the phenomenon of literature, exploring why we read, and why we write.

Language: English

Pages: 280

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Routledge

Release: May 06, 2022

ISBN: 0415254043

ISBN 13: 9780415254045

What is Literature?

Bernard Frechtman

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings had a potency that was irresistible to the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inheritance to contemporary thought. The central tenet of the Existentialist movement which he helped to found, whereby God is replaced by an ethical self, proved hugely attractive to a generation that had seen the horrors of Nazism, and provoked a revolution in post-war thought and literature. In What is Literature? Sartre the novelist and Sartre the philosopher combine to address the phenomenon of literature, exploring why we read, and why we write.

Language: English

Pages: 280

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Routledge

Release: May 06, 2022

ISBN: 0415254043

ISBN 13: 9780415254045

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