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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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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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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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7Celebrating the Critique’s Fiftieth AnniversarySartre Studies International 16 (2): 1-16. 2010.When published, Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason appeared to be a major intellectual and political event, no less than a Kantian effort to found Marxism, with far-reaching theoretical and political consequences. Claude Levi-Strauss devoted a course to studying it, and debated Sartre's main points in The Savage Mind; Andre Gorz devoted a major article to explaining its importance and key concepts in New Left Review. Many analysts of the May, 1968 events in Paris claimed that they were anti…Read more
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46Sartre on stalin: A discussion of critique de la raison dialectique, IIStudies in East European Thought 33 (2): 131-143. 1987.
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122Between heaven and earthThe Philosophers' Magazine 48 (48): 73-80. 2010.One of the paradoxes of the Culture War is that opposites conspire with each other against the rest of us. We are offered an impoverished, narrow conception of reason and knowledge, proposing a stark choice to the rest of us: approach life’s important questions through science, or turn to religion. This was a false choice two hundred years ago, and it remains so today.
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11Review: Communism's Posthumous Trial (review)History and Theory 42 (2): 222-245. 2003.The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stéphane Courtois The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century by François Furet The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century by Tony Judt Le Siècle des communismes by Michel Dreyfus.
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"L'Idiot de la famille:" The Ultimate Sartre?Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 20 (n/a): 90. 1974.
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Wayne State UniversityRegular Faculty
Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |