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Talking with Sartre - Conversations and Debates (Paperback)
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Talking with Sartre - Conversations and Debates (Paperback)
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What would it be like to be privy to the mind of one of the
twentieth century's greatest thinkers? John Gerassi had just this
opportunity; as a child, his mother and father were very close
friends with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and the
couple became for him like surrogate parents. Authorized by Sartre
to write his biography, Gerassi conducted a long series of
interviews between 1970 and 1974, which he has now edited to
produce this revelatory and breathtaking portrait of one of the
world's most famous intellectuals. Through the interviews, with
both their informalities and their tensions, Sartre's greater
complexities emerge. In particular, we see Sartre wrestling with
the apparent contradiction between his views on freedom and the
influence of social conditions on our choices and actions. We also
gain insight into his perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, World
War II, and the disintegration of colonialism. These conversations
add an intimate dimension to Sartre's more abstract ideas. With
remarkable rigor and intensity, they also provide a clear lens
through which to view the major conflagrations of the past century.
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