Jean-Paul Sartre

'Every theory of imagination must satisfy two requirements. It must account for the spontaneous discrimination that the mind makes between its images and its perceptions, and it must explain the role that the image plays in the operation of thought. Whatever form it has taken, the classical conception of the image could not fulfil these two essential tasks.' - Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre's L’Imagination was published in 1936 when he was thirty years old. The Imagination is Sartre’s first full philosophical work, presenting some of the basic arguments concerning phenomenology, consciousness, and intentionality that were to mark his philosophy as a whole and be so influential in the course of twentieth-century philosophy. Sartre begins by criticizing philosophical theories of the imagination, particularly those of Descartes, Leibniz, and Hume, before establishing his central thesis. Imagination does not involve the perception of ‘mental images’ in any literal sense, Sartre argues, yet reveals some of the fundamental capacities of consciousness. He then reviews psychological theories of the imagination, including a fascinating discussion of the work of Henri Bergson. Sartre argues that the ‘classical conception’ is fundamentally flawed because it begins by conceiving of the imagination as being like perception and then seeks, in vain, to re-establish the difference between the two. Sartre concludes with an important chapter on Husserl’s theory of the imagination which, despite sharing the flaws of earlier approaches, signals a new phenomenological way forward in understanding the imagination. The Imagination is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, phenomenology, and the history of twentieth-century philosophy. The translation has been revised throughout for this Routledge Classics edition. There is also a revised Translators’ Introduction and a new Foreword, both by Kenneth Williford and David Rudrauf. Also included is Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s important review of L’Imagination upon its publication in French in 1936. Translated by Kenneth Williford and David Rudrauf.

This book presents a full decade of Sartre’s work, from the publication of the <i>Critique of Dialectical Reason</i> in 1960, the basic philosophical turning-point in his postwar development, to the inception of his major study on Flaubert, the first volumes of which appeared in 1971. The essays and interviews collected here form a vivid panorama of the range and unity of Sartre’s interests, since his deliberate attempt to wed his original existentialism to a rethought Marxism.<br><br>A long and brilliant autobiographical interview, given to <i>New Left Review</i> in 1969, constitutes the best single overview of Sartre’s whole intellectual evolution. Three analytic texts on the US war in Vietnam, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the lessons of the May Revolt in France, define his political positions as a revolutionary socialist. Questions of philosophy and aesthetics are explored in essays on Kierkegaard, Mallarme and Tintoretto. Another section of the collection explores Sartre’s critical attitude to orthodox psychoanalysis as a therapy, and is accompanied by rejoinders from colleagues on his journal <i>Les Temps Modernes</i>. The volume concludes with a prolonged reflection on the nature and role of intellectuals and writers in advanced capitalism, and their relationship to the struggles of the exploited and oppressed classes. <i>Between Existentialism and Marxism</i> is an impressive demonstration of the breadth and vitality of Sartre’s thought, and its capacity to respond to political and cultural changes in the contemporary world.

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Sešity z podivné války (září 1939--březen 1940) francouzského spisovatele a existenciálního filosofa Jeana-Paula Sartra (1905--1980) vycházejí u nás poprvé (z Carnets de la drôle guerre, Gallimard, 1995, je přeložil Michal Novotný). Sartre je začal psát od prvních zářijových dnů 1939, když se po vstupu Francie do války s Německem nechal mezi prvními 2. září mobilizovat, dobrovolně opustil skvělou kariéru (již publikoval např. Nevolnost, Zeď, Imaginárno, učil na prestižní École normale supérieure…) a odjel v roli meteorologa do posádky v porýnském Marmoutier. V prohnilém ovzduší „podivné války“ – několikaměsíčního vyčkávání zbraní a rafinovaného působení nacistické propagandy na podlomení ducha francouzských vojáků, měl na psaní dost klidu, mohl rozvíjet svou filosofii, ovlivněnou E. Husserlem a hlavně M. Heideggerem, téměř dokončit Bytí a nicotu, uvažovat o politice, přečíst a kriticky analyzovat úctyhodné množství literatury, a především uvažovat o lidských postojích ke světu, a zvláště o sobě. „Chci se změnit,“ píše na několika místech deníku. Jde hlavně o přerod pacifisty a antimilitaristy k člověku, jenž chce pochopit a přijmout válku jako svou „lidskou skutečnost“, do níž „byl vržen“.Z patnácti sešitů, jež Sartre popsal, než r. 1940 padl do zajetí, a jež hodlal vzhledem k deníkové upřímnosti publikovat až po své smrti, se jich zachovalo šest. Českému čtenáři přinesou mnoho cenných poznatků o dynamice uvažování jedné z nejvýznamnějších osobností 20. století

Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason" follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, urgently trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the distant threat of the coming of the Second World War."