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The Existentialist Moment - The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual (Paperback)
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The Existentialist Moment - The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual (Paperback)
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Loot Price R582
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 Jean-Paul Sartre is
often seen as the quintessential public intellectual, but this was
not always the case. Until the mid-1940s he was not so well-known,
even in France. Then suddenly, in a very short period of time,
Sartre became an intellectual celebrity. How can we explain this
remarkable transformation? The Existentialist Moment retraces
Sartre's career and provides a compelling new explanation of his
meteoric rise to fame. Baert takes the reader back to the confusing
and traumatic period of the Second World War and its immediate
aftermath and shows how the unique political and intellectual
landscape in France at this time helped to propel Sartre and
existentialist philosophy to the fore. The book also explores why,
from the early 1960s onwards, in France and elsewhere, the interest
in Sartre and existentialism eventually waned. The Existentialist
Moment ends with a bold new theory for the study of intellectuals
and a provocative challenge to the widespread belief that the
public intellectual is a species now on the brink of extinction.
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