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29. Camus the UnbelieverIn Jonathan Judaken & Robert Bernasconi (eds.), Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context, Columbia University Press. pp. 256-276. 2012.
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13L'Idiot de la famille: The Ultimate Sartre?Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1974 (20): 90-107. 1974.
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5Sartre on the American Working Class Seven Articles in Combat from 6 to 30 June, 1945Sartre Studies International 6 (1): 1-22. 2000.In early 1945, with the war not yet over, Sartre travelled to the United States for the first time. He travelled with a group of correspondents who were invited in order to influence French public opinion favourably towards the United States.1 Sartre was sent by his friend Albert Camus to report back to Combat, the leading newspaper of the independent left. Once invited, he arranged also to report back to the conservative newspaper, Le Figaro. Simone de Beauvoir reports that learning of Camus’ i…Read more
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55The following books have been received and are available for review. Please contact the Reviews Editor: jim. oshea@ ucd. ie (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 12 (4). 2004.
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12We: Reviving Social HopeUniversity of Chicago Press. 2017.The election of Donald Trump has exposed American society’s profound crisis of hope. By 2016 a generation of shrinking employment, rising inequality, the attack on public education, and the shredding of the social safety net, had set the stage for stunning insurgencies at opposite ends of the political spectrum. Against this dire background, Ronald Aronson offers an answer. He argues for a unique conception of social hope, one with the power for understanding and acting upon the present situatio…Read more
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41Revisiting Existential MarxismSartre Studies International 25 (2): 92-98. 2019.Alfred Betschart has claimed that the project of existential Marxism is a contradiction in terms, but this argument, even when supported by many experts and quotes from Sartre’s 1975 interview, misses the point of my Boston Review article, “The Philosophy of Our Time.” I believe the important argument today is not about whether we can prove that Sartre ever became a full-fledged Marxist, but rather about the political and philosophical possibility, and importance today, of existentialist Marxism…Read more
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12Sartre's Return to Ontology: "Critique", II, Rethinks the Basis of "L'Etre et le Néant"Journal of the History of Ideas 48 (1): 99. 1987.
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76Camus 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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36Sartre 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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45Sartre on stalin: A discussion of critique de la raison dialectique, IIStudies in East European Thought 33 (2): 131-143. 1987.
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121Between 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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Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |