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15Sartre versus CamusRadical Philosophy Review 4 (1-2): 102-116. 2001.The author argues for a conjunction of Albert Camus’s “idealism” with Jean-Paul Sartre’s “dialectical realism” as a corrective to the limitation of each for the sake of a viable transformative politics.
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2Sartre after marxismIn Adrian Mirvish & Adrian Van den Hoven (eds.), New perspectives on Sartre, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 270. 2010.
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42Abbas, Niran, ed. Mapping Michel Serres. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. $27.95 pb. Achinstein, Peter, ed. Scientific Evidence: Philosophical Theories and Applications. Balti-more: John Hopkins University Press, 2005. $49.95 Armour-Garb, Bradley P. and JC Beall, eds. Deflationary Truth. Chicago: Open Court, 2005 (review)Philosophy Today. forthcoming.
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32Pinker and progressHistory and Theory 52 (2): 246-264. 2013.Condorcet's classical Enlightenment statement of human progress became an essential element of nineteenth- and twentieth-century consciousness, but by the millennium grand narratives had fallen victim to a disillusioned cultural climate. Now Steven Pinker, like Condorcet drawing on a wide range of contemporary “knowledges,” has reasserted a sweeping narrative of human progress in The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Mapping a spectacular long-term decline in person-on-pers…Read more
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24Book Review:Social Theory at a Crossroads. William L. McBride (review)Ethics 93 (4): 813-. 1983.
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39Sartre contre Camus : le conflit jamais résoluCités 22 (2): 53. 2005.En vertu de quelle prescience la querelle la plus importante du XXe siècle a-t-elle annoncé la plus grande question du XXIe ? Lors de la rupture entre Camus et Sartre, le point sur lequel ils étaient le plus divisés était la question de la violence politique et spécifiquement celle du communisme. Et au fur et à mesure qu’ils continuaient à s’attaquer mutuellement, de façon codée,..
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20Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended ItUniversity of Chicago Press. 2004.Until now it has been impossible to read the full story of the relationship between Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Their dramatic rupture at the height of the Cold War, like that conflict itself, demanded those caught in its wake to take sides rather than to appreciate its tragic complexity. Now, using newly available sources, Ronald Aronson offers the first book-length account of the twentieth century's most famous friendship and its end. Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre first met in 1943,…Read more
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2Truth and Existence (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 1992._Truth and Existence_, written in response to Martin Heidegger's _Essence of Truth_, is a product of the years when Sartre was reaching full stature as a philosopher, novelist, playwright, essayist, and political activist. This concise and engaging text not only presents Sartre's ontology of truth but also addresses the key moral questions of freedom, action, and bad faith. _Truth and Existence_ is introduced by an extended biographical, historical, and analytical essay by Ronald Aronson. "_Trut…Read more
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Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |