Sartre Books

New and Published Books

1. The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre

   By Jonathan Webber

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

   Webber argues for a new interpretation of Sartrean existentialism. On this reading, Sartre is arguing that each person’s character consists in the projects they choose to pursue and that we are all already aware of this but prefer not to face it. Careful consideration of his existentialist writings...

   Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Imagination

   By Jean-Paul Sartre

   ‘No matter how long I may look at an image, I shall never find anything in it but what I put there. It is in this fact that we find the distinction between an image and a perception.' - Jean-Paul Sartre L’Imagination was published in 1936 when Jean-Paul Sartre was thirty years old. Long out of...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Economic Methodology and Freedom to Choose (Routledge Revivals)

   By Patrick O'Sullivan

   First published in 1987, Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and other human sciences. The argument is unabashedly dialectical in the great Socratic-Platonic tradition, and the reissue will be very welcome to all...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Robert Denoon Cumming

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in Great Britain in 1968, this is an authoritative introduction to the life of one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Prompted by the belief that none of the parts of Sartre’s work is fully intelligible apart from the whole , this ambitious volume...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Transcendence of the Ego

   A Sketch for a Phenomenological Description

   By Jean-Paul Sartre

   Series: Routledge Classics

   ‘I should like to show here that the Ego is neither formally or materially in consciousness: it is outside, in the world.’ Jean-Paul Sartre The Transcendence of the Ego is one of Jean-Paul Sartre's earliest philosophical publications and essential for understanding the trajectory of his work as a...

   Published March 29th 2011 by Routledge
6. Reading Sartre

   On Phenomenology and Existentialism

   Edited by Jonathan Webber

   Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The fourteen original essays in this volume focus on the phenomenological and existentialist writings of the first major phase of his published career, arguing with scholarly precision for their continuing...

   Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge
7. The Imaginary

   A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination

   By Jean-Paul Sartre

   Series: Routledge Classics

   A cornerstone of Sartre’s philosophy, The Imaginary was first published in 1940. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of the 'intentionality of consciousness' as a key to the puzzle of existence. Against this background, The...

   Published March 11th 2010 by Routledge
8. Jean-Paul Sartre

   By Christine Daigle

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   A critical figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual. Christine Daigle sets Sartre’s thought in context, and considers a number of key ideas in detail, charting their impact...

   Published October 15th 2009 by Routledge
9. Colonialism and Neocolonialism

   By Jean-Paul Sartre

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre’s writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable intellect relentlessly to bear on his own country...

   Published January 31st 2006 by Routledge
10. The Transcendence of the Ego

    A Sketch for a Phenomenological Description

    By Jean-Paul Sartre

    First published in France in 1936 as a journal article, The Transcendence of the Ego was one of Jean-Paul Sartre's earliest philosophical publications. When it appeared, Sartre was still largely unknown, working as a school teacher in provincial France and struggling to find a publisher for his...

    Published August 4th 2004 by Routledge