Letters to Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir

Letters to Sartre Simone de Beauvoir ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 544
ISBN: 9781611454987
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Right now, in fact, I'm reading The Plague again -- for no particular reason. Consider the story of my first encounter with Sartre. Anyway, I haven't read much Sartre. They sent each other palliative letters. To give just a sample of the subjects McCarthy and Arendt talked and wrote to each other about: George Eliot, Cartesianism, Eldridge Cleaver, Kant, G. Though taken as a quasi manifesto for the Existentialist movement, the transcript of this lecture was the only publication that Sartre openly regretted seeing in print. And yet it 1991, Letters to Sartre tr. I read Being and Nothingness in college. The professor, a Nietzsche aficionado, explained Sartre's adage that existence precedes essence. Always On Watch said Sartre: "Friendship can also become totalitarian." Hmmmm.