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Sartres filosofi

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'Om Tristan och Isolde', säger Sartre, 'blir vansinnigt förälskade i varandra därför att de har druckit en kärleksdryck, är de mindre intressanta.' Då har de inte något val. Men vi nadra, medvetna varelser har ingen fix natur: vi skapar vårt väsen under hand. Sartre hävdar den stränga tesen att vi inte bara väljer våra handlingar utan också vår karaktär. Här möter vi existentialismens centrala doktrin.

Sartres filosofiska teorier är utomordentligt dunkla, dynamiska och stolta. De har haft betydelse för hans skönlitterära verk, men vad de får ut på, och hur Sartre har velat motivera dem, är mindre väl känt. Särskilt den senaste fasen i hans filosofiska utveckling, som lett fram till ståndpunkter som radikalt skiljer sig från vad han tidigare hävdat, torde i stort sett vara okänd för svenska läsare.

Mary Warnock har i denna bok klart och begripligt framställt huvuddragen i Sartres filosofi, givit des shistoriska bakgrund, påvisat dess rötter i tysk idealism, i fenomenologi och marxism. Huvudvikten har lagts vid Sartres två största filsofiska verk, L'Etre et le Néant från 1943 och Critique de la Raison Dialectique från 1960, och den genomgripande förändring som Sartres filosofi däremellan undergått.

Mary Warnock är docent i Oxford, en känd SArtre-expert som regelbundet radioföreläser och existentialismen.

188 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1966

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Mary Warnock

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Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, DBE, FBA is a British philosopher of morality, education and mind, and writer on existentialism.

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November 21, 2020
It's a decent primer, but Warnock's writing is a bit flat and this book did little to enhance my understanding of Sartre's work.
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September 23, 2025
A clear introduction which I've found invaluable--I have neither the energy nor inclination to read Sartre's philosophy, so my hope was to find a lucid introduction which while critical in places was not out to either elevate Sartre or to do a hatchet job. I especially enjoyed the account of Sartre's reading of Husserl and was also intrigued to learn of Sartre's preliminary essay 'The question of Method' to his The Critique of Dialectical Reason. 'The question of method' immediately brought to my mind the section of Derrida's Of Grammatology 'The Exorbitant: Question of Method' and I wondered at the threads that could be used to cross-stitch these two together. Warnock tells us that this section deals with the question of method and that Sartre's writing raises how he can ground his notion of dialectical reason and how this might be linked to 'totalization' and 'praxis.' All this is done in a restrained, plain English style which is not without its own charms though I wonder if she'd be hostile to all sense of stylistic flourishes in dry old philosophy. When I was in grad school, back in the old days, its was like Existentialism, like the war, never happened.
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April 26, 2023
Sartre isn't always the easiest to understand, and this resource really gives the reader confidence to start engaging with his text directly. Definitely read this before starting to read him if you're finding him quite tricky to get your head round!
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