Sartre: a Life by Annie Cohen-Solal , Solal Annie Cohen , Anna
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Read and Download Ebook Sartre: A Life... Sartre: A Life Annie Cohen-Solal , Solal Annie Cohen , Anna Cancongi (Translator) PDF File: Sartre: A Life... 1 Read and Download Ebook Sartre: A Life... Sartre: A Life Annie Cohen-Solal , Solal Annie Cohen , Anna Cancongi (Translator) Sartre: A Life Annie Cohen-Solal , Solal Annie Cohen , Anna Cancongi (Translator) One of the major accomplishments of Cohen-Solal's book is not only to place Sartre in the context of history, but to reopen the question of his role and to reassess the full import of his literary and political accomplishments. Discovering untold aspects of Sartre's private and political life, Cohen-Solal weaves together all the elements of an exceptional career. From the description of his previously unknown father to the painful last moments of Sartre's own declining years, this is biography on the grandest scale. Sartre: A Life Details Date : Published August 12th 1988 by Pantheon (first published 1985) ISBN : 9780394756622 Author : Annie Cohen-Solal , Solal Annie Cohen , Anna Cancongi (Translator) Format : Paperback 0 pages Genre : Biography, Philosophy, Nonfiction, History, Cultural, France Download Sartre: A Life ...pdf Read Online Sartre: A Life ...pdf Download and Read Free Online Sartre: A Life Annie Cohen-Solal , Solal Annie Cohen , Anna Cancongi (Translator) PDF File: Sartre: A Life... 2 Read and Download Ebook Sartre: A Life... From Reader Review Sartre: A Life for online ebook Aberjhani says Biography Presents Compelling Portrait of Life, Times, and Mind of Jean-Paul Sartre The rich flow of historical details, intellectual insights, and political dynamics that make up the powerful pages of Annie Cohen-Solal’s “Sartre: A Life” are both is primary assets and, for some, its principle liabilities. In the afterword to the Sartre Centennial 1905-2005 edition of the book, the authors lets us in on her adopted goals and methodology: “I adopted from the beginning, a different perspective, that of interactionist micro-sociology, which tries to understand society from the subjective side of its actors, proposing to trace the process of intellectual creation and cultural production through an articulation of the individual with the intellectual milieu. Above all, I sought to shed light on the conditions of possibility of a subversive discourse which inversed power relationships by bringing historical and sociological interpretations together… Within this framework, I decided on the following methodological principles: I would adopt a triple approach—phenomenological, generative, and holistic…” (Cohen-Solal, p. 531) It is a brilliant strategy superbly executed. The outstanding aspect of it for this reader was the propositions to “trace the process of intellectual creation and cultural production through an articulation of the individual with the intellectual milieu.” And: on the dynamics of possibility pertaining to a sociologically- and historically-informed subversive discourse. That Annie Cohen-Solal was only 32 when she dared tackle the job of writing a biography on Jean Paul- Sartre and stuck with it through the completion of some 524 pages half a decade later was worthy of a literary prize in itself. Her chosen framework, however, generates some of the same intimidating challenges as certain of Sartre’s tomes themselves––say, for example, his Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol 2, or the nuclear astonishment known as The Family Idiot 1: Gustave Flaubert 1821-1857, which enraptured his soul throughout his later years. Just as the intellectually-uninitiated––as well as many who have crossed said threshold––are bound to find themselves confused and frustrated attempting to hold on to the thread of Sartre’s reasoning and non- reasoning, so are they likely to experience the same clinging to the hem of Cohen-Solal’s virtuosity as she constructs, deconstructs, analyzes, reconstructs, labels, and defines the mass of public and private components that comprised her subject’s phenomenal life. None of that should discourage readers from enjoying the mind-stimulating ride. What makes this book so mesmerizingly extraordinary is the succession of dual portraits of Sartre as a flawed and at times wounded soul in contrast to him as the emerging-and-then-dominant French intellectual of his time. He was the litterateur par excellence who could simultaneously advance is working theses in multiple formats: as journalism, plays, lectures, philosophy, novels, and movie scripts. Yet he was also the doting son who saw to his mother’s well-being, as well as, the pied-piper mentor to aspiring writers, hopeful actresses, and political activists who would follow in his footsteps. In addition–– whereas he may have been properly lauded as a prominent member of the French resistance and unexpected author of Being and Nothingness, he was also an unlikely kind of Casanova and a borderline drug addict. Capable of deep loyalty to either an individual (as he was for a time to fellow Nobel Laureate PDF File: Sartre: A Life... 3 Read and Download Ebook Sartre: A Life... Albert Camus) or a cause (per the Cuban Revolution) he could quickly and brutally eject them from his public and private embrace. In short, his was a unique personality unleashed during one of the most volatile periods of modern history and how the prolific author interacted with it on multiple levels is fascinating almost beyond belief. Were it not for Cohen-Solal’s insistence on balancing the great man’s achievements with his human shortcomings one would be tempted to say he was nearly larger-than-life. PLEASE NOTE: This is the first half of my official essay review of Sartre: A Life; for the second part please visit this url: http://www.author-poet-aberjhani.info... Aberjhani author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance and The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois david says okay. I give up. annie cohen-solal writes well. she really researches her subject. but I gave up halfway through the book. of course I like satre, but it was too much information on his life for me. so I yield to anyone to has the patience to read this tome. Harry Allagree says For all its 600 or so pages, I'd be hard pressed to think of a book which I've enjoyed reading more than this one! In a very surface way I've been intrigued with Jean-Paul Sartre since the late 1950's when we were introduced to him & his thought in our seminary Contemporary Philosophy course. We spent some time on his writings, but were never challenged, nor did I ever take the initiative, to read any of his works. We relied on snippets from them. I wish now that I'd pursued him more vigorously. It would've prevented me from some very unwarranted assumptions about him & what he was about, which have lasted until I read this astounding biography. Annie Cohen-Solal presents an incredible portrait of a man whom I think I would have very much enjoyed meeting & speaking with. Perhaps a quote of Sartre's, spoken in 1978, two years before he died at age 74, with which Cohen-Solal concludes the biography in a way summarizes what Sartre was all about: "One day, my life will end, but I don't want it to be burdened with death. I want that my death never enter my life, nor define it, that I be always a call to life." The author's account details how very much Sartre was "a call to life" as a philosopher, novelist, playwright, political figure, and most of all the global champion of causes of those oppressed. He valued truth, knowledge & generosity. He was ever thirsty for new insights from other people. He was also offbeat & quirky as a human being, often even contradictory. He was also humble. His way with women was legendary & it's remarkable that, for never marrying, he was able to sustain multiple close relationships/friendships for more years than many marriages last! He drank, he smoked: he actually was his own worst enemy & ruined his eyesight & health ultimately. He was personable. He loved young people. And was indefatigable in his fighting for human rights & dignity. Many have called him the greatest intellectual of the 20th century. We could profit from such a one today! John Wilson says PDF File: Sartre: A Life... 4 Read and Download Ebook Sartre: A Life... A very detailed and comprehensive biography on the life of Sartre. Full of information I knew nothing about, going through each period with all of his activites and acquaintances. Well worth reading. Shahram Keivani says ???? ?? ?? ??? ???? ????? ?? ?? ????? ? ???? ????? ??? ?? ???? ?????? ????? ???? ??? ?? ?? ???? ??? ?? ?? ????? ??? ???. ???? ??? ???? ???? ???? ???? ????? ?? ?? ???? ??? ???? ?????? ??? ???? ?????? ????. Jonathan says Although very insightful, detailed and rich in its articulation of the inhumane number of events, articles, political happenings etc JP participated in, I missed more time spent analyzing Sartre's way of thinking, his intuition, his philosophy as a whole. Frank says Sartre is veel sympathieker dan ik dacht, maar wat werd hij op een verkeerd moment communist. Goed geschreven bio, met uitschieters naar beneden. Güis Guerrero-Enterría says Buena biografía de Sartre, buena explicación de su pensamiento. Laura Van says Ik ben met dit boek gestopt, ongeveer halverwege. Misschien leuk als je in de jaren zestig in Frankrijk woonde, maar voor iemand die geboren werd in het jaar dat Sartre stierf, is het te gedetailleerd. Al die franse 'intellectuels' uit de '68 en daar voor en na zeiden mij vaak niets meer. Ofwel: gedateerde biografie, helaas. Thomas Strömquist says Amazing work on the great man, tremendous attention to details and not a stone left unturned. PDF File: Sartre: A Life... 5.