{"product_id":"9781501705205","title":"A Preface to Sartre","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the leading Western intellectual of his time, Jean-Paul Sartre has written highly influential works in a diverse number of subject areas: philosophy, literature, biography, autobiography, and the theory of history. The concise and lucidly-written \u003cem\u003eA Preface to Sartre\u003c\/em\u003e discusses the French philosopher's contributions in all of these fields.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking imaginative use of the insights of some of the most important contemporary French thinkers (notably Jacques Derrida), Dominick LaCapra seeks to bring about an active confrontation between Sartre and his critics in terms that transcend the opposition between existentialism and structuralism. Referring wherever appropriate to important events in Sartre's life, he illuminates such difficult works as \u003cem\u003eBeing and Nothingness\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eCritique of Dialectical Reason\u003c\/em\u003e, and places Sartre in relation to the traditions that he has explicitly rejected. LaCapra also offers close and sensitive interpretations of \u003cem\u003eNausea\u003c\/em\u003e, of the autobiography, \u003cem\u003eThe Words\u003c\/em\u003e, and of Sartre's biographical studies of Baudelaire, Genet, and Flaubert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I envision intellectual history,\" writes laCapra, \"as a critical, informed, and stimulating conversation with the past through the medium of the texts of major thinkers. Who else in our recent past is a more fascinating interlocutor than Sartre?\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145566732528,"sku":"9781501705205","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781501705205_p0.jpg?v=1763707927","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781501705205","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}