Philosopher Terry Pinkard revisits Sartre’s later work, illuminating
a pivotal stance in Sartre’s understanding of freedom and communal
action. Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason, released
to great fanfare in 1960, has since then receded in philosophical
visibility. As Sartre’s reputation is now making a comeback, it is
time for a reappraisal of his later work. In Practice, Power, and
Forms of Life, philosopher Terry Pinkard interprets Sartre’s late
work as a fundamental reworking of his earlier ideas, especially in
terms of his understanding of the possibility of communal action as
genuinely free, which the French philosopher had previously argued was
impossible. Pinkard reveals how Sartre was drawn back to Hegel, a move
that was itself incited by Sartre’s newfound interest in Marxism.
Pinkard argues that Sartre constructed a novel position on freedom
that has yet to be adequately taken up and analyzed within philosophy
and political theory. Through Sartre, Pinkard advances an argument
that contributes to the history of philosophy as well as key debates
on action and freedom.
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Sartre’s Appropriation of Hegel and Marx
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ISBN
9780226815473
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
University of Chicago Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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