What is Literature?
Paperback Published on: 18/05/2001
£14.99
Synopsis
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.
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- ISBN: 9780415254045
- Number of pages: 288
- Weight: 308g
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm